codger
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of codger
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(informal)An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.
“‘I haven’t been drinking your health, my codger,’ replied Mr. Squeers; ‘so you have nothing to do with that.’”
“Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.”
“Jed, darling. The old codgers need to talk. Andrew's going to buy you a drink in that beautiful bar up on the terrace.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Possibly derived from cadger (“hawker”). Or abbreviation of coffin dodger, but this is likely to be a folk etymology.
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