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codger
noun
a pleasantly eccentric old man UK, 1756
Often found as “old codger.”- My grandfather was a tough old codger, but that’s one thing you can say for him, he was always a believer in giving folks a second chance. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 49, 1971
- When Bobbie questioned Fin about the age of all the fun-loving fogies, coots, geezers, codgers, duffers and biddies she’d met in the saloon, he didn’t know how to tell her that the oldest fossil in the joint wasn’t fifteen years his senior. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 230, 1993
- [T]here are invisible people there, old codgers with lots of coats and a cup of tea. — Jane Rogers, Lucky, p. 16, 1999
- [T]he self-indulgent ramblings of an old codger who would have been wiser to let someone else tell his story[.] — Guardian, 12 October 2002
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