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Old codger

noun
1.
Used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man.  Synonym: codger.





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"Old codger" Quotes from Famous Books



... "better say all, for John Stanley and Hugh Worthington are as near alike as an old and young man well could be. What an old codger he was though, and how like a savage he lived here. I never shall forget how the house looked the day we came, or how satisfied Hugh seemed when he met us at the gate, and said, 'everything was in spendid order,'" and closing her book, ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
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... gratitude or an Arab's generosity. He'll promise you the moon, and then wriggle out of giving you so much as a star—just as Abdul ben Meerza did with me.' And upon Miss Morrison asking what he meant by that, he replied, laughingly: 'Ask Van; he knew the old codger better than I—knew his whole blessed family, blow him!—and was able to talk to the old skinflint in ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew
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Words linked to "Old codger" :   greybeard, Methuselah, old man, graybeard


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