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noun

Codger n.

A miser or mean person.

A singular or odd person, especially an old man; a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. (Colloq.) "A few of us old codgers met at the fireside."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Codger" Quotes from Famous Books

... one o' the same crowd, you know. It's considered ruther more hon'able, in course, to hev this one. None o' the man-waiter or sarvant-gal about him. A chap with the mucous looks kind o' slick an' smooth, an' feels his oats pooty wal; but a codger with the nervous is sort o' thin an' wild-like. Wholesalers ginerally hev the fust, an' retailers the second; though, 'casionally, I hev known exceptions. A bank-president invariably has the second; an' I never seen an apple-woman without the other. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various

... discover, beyond the bare fact. I didn't come to report, for there's nothing to say, except that I'm sticking at it, and if I don't get a sight of those two before long I'm going to burn a red sulphur light some fine night, and yell 'fire!' I bet that'll bring the old codger out, for ...

— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

... hired man we found being beaten up by an old codger of a farmer when we walked out this afternoon. We took his part and made the farmer trot Spanish. I guess Link is taking a day off with the wages we got for him," and he ...

— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes

... long delay, dear master? But I think that I must bore you with my eternal jeremiads. I repeat myself like a dotard! I am becoming too stupid! I am boring everybody. In short, your Cruchard has become an intolerable old codger, because he has been intolerant. And as I cannot do anything that I ought to do, I must, out of consideration for others, spare them the ...

— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... had been through the War of 1812 and could display wounds received on the field of valor; others were still prouder of scars won in encounters with the Indians, and there was one old codger, a Revolutionary veteran, Bill Dunham by name, who would add bloody tales of his encounters with the "Husshons." His courage had been so extraordinary and his slaughter so colossal that his hearers marvelled ...

— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin

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