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
And this is how I turned into a cliché: the old codger who buys a car wistfully recalled from his youth.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021
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
And it didn’t stop Mrs. L. J. Weidenbach, the banker’s wife, who came leading her father, an ancient codger half her size in full Civil War Union blue.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
