Crossword clues for codger
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Codger \Codg"er\, n. [Cf. Cadger.]
A miser or mean person.
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A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.]
A few of us old codgers met at the fireside.
--Emerson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1756, probably a variant of cadger "beggar" (see cadge (v.)), which is of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.
WordNet
n. used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man [syn: old codger]
Usage examples of "codger".
Preacher and two men, the owners of the dogs, went down into the pit with Codger and Muncher.
Muncher, the challenger, was dragging Codger, the champion, around the pit, trying to make the old dog let go of his nose.
The grip was strong and Codger was shook like a used condom about to be tied and tossed.
He pulled a Saturday Night Special from his coat pocket and shot Codger twice in the head.
He was, he said, an old codger set in his ways, and although lonely at times, he had adjusted to loneliness.
The camp had been stirring since an hour before daylight, when Codger had banged on the iron pot.
Burr sat hunched over the table in the cook shack, his stomach empty and grumbling, his hands circling the mug of hot coffee while he waited for Codger to cook the refried beans and eggs.
Burr said, taking the plates from Codger and shoving one down the table to his brother.
By the time they were ready to leave, the wagon was full of supplies from the storage shed and foodstuffs Johanna and Codger had boxed up from the root cellar and smokehouse.
There is not above here and there an old codger that asks one a question that can bring it into any play.
The grip was strong and Codger was shook like a used condom about to be fled and tossed.
Earnshaw surmised-and just as correctly-that Gramps found him a fool and that it would do no harm to get on the good side of the old codger.
I was going to tell you how many unmistakeable admirers I had:- Sir Thomas Ashby was one, - Sir Hugh Meltham and Sir Broadley Wilson are old codgers, only fit companions for papa and mamma.
I'll tell you, Quinlan, it don't seem to matter how horny she gets and how much she sticks her bosom out there for the old codgers to ogle.
We have so many repeat customers now-coming in regularly from a good fifty-mile radius-that we might have to hire on some of those lazy old codgers out there playing cards around their barrel.