codger
Example Sentences
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When I asked Winston how she and others had made the shirts so quickly, she looked at me like the codger I am:
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2022
Johnson says that you have three options when it comes to adoption: “another old codger, a pair of kittens, or nothing at all.”
From Slate • May 30, 2019
Yet much of the press is acting like he's an old codger and it's just a matter of time before he keels over politically.
From Fox News • Apr. 26, 2019
By the 1930s, the term had changed in Hollywood to refer to entertainers who played specific types: Walter Brennan as the leathery old codger, Ward Bond as the avuncular authority figure.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2017
Looking at Grandpa, Mama said, “Papa, this is the silliest thing I ever heard of, an old codger like you, going to town to read monkey books.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
