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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



... if you wish," he said, respectfully, as he stepped aside; "but please do not be quite so unkind; and, by the way, can you tell me what the old codger down below meant by his son ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... queer old codger Browse is!" remarked Diggory, as the big fellow moved away; "no one would ever think he ...
— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery

... in training). Caroliny, no awkward questions. Evening, missis, and I hope you will get him to go along with you quietly. (Looking after COADE.) Watch the old codger dancing. ...
— Dear Brutus • J. M. Barrie

... this is very nice!" he said. "I'd better be careful, though, or I'll have all the young fellows in town down on me, when they see an old codger like me driving two pretty young ladies around. Where shall we ...
— The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm - Or, Bessie King's New Chum • Jane L. Stewart

... piano, at what is suggested by the violin case, at the refinement of this room—and then picture what might have been here! Take another view, and consider what a fine chance you'd have had to meet her if that old codger hadn't turned scamp off there in Azuria! Anyway, we've got to clean up the signs of ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... He's a 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 detailed ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes

... "But the poor old codger's looks would naturally be changed," he argued, "after he had spent all this time wandering around the woods—out of his mind at that. I am inclined to think that the girls are right and that ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls • Laura Lee Hope



Words linked to "Old codger" :   Methuselah, graybeard, old man, greybeard, codger



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