Definition of Old codger

1. Noun. Used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man.

Exact synonyms: Codger
Generic synonyms: Graybeard, Greybeard, Methuselah, Old Man

Definition of Old codger

1. Noun. An old man ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Codger

old-womanish
old-world
old age
old age pension
old as the hills
old bag
old ball
old bean
old boy
old boy network
old boys' club
old chap
old chestnut
old codger (current term)
old college try
old country
old days
old fashioned
old flame
old flames
old fogey
old fogies
old folks
old franc
old francs

Literary usage of Old codger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handlingar (1903)
"irreverent term', usually old codger, 1756 Murphy, Apprentice: »Old Cojer must not smoke that .I have any concern» [said by the appr. of his master]; ..."

2. On Transferred Appellations of Human Beings by Josef Reinius (1903)
"irreverent term', usually old codger, 1756 Murphy, Apprentice: »Old Cojer must not smoke that I have any concern» [said by the appr. of his master]; ..."

3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Hard-hearted old codger, he'd see me killed with as much unconcern as he would a sucking-pig. 1846. ..."

4. On Transferred Appellations of Human Beings, Chiefly in English and German by Josef Reinius (1903)
"It is not impossible that this codger 'cobbler' is (partly at least) the base of the slightly opprobrious (old) codger above. In Murphy's 'Apprentice' the ..."

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