codger
Example Sentences
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Years later, the Azusa Herald quoted an old codger of a prospector — aren’t they all codgers? — that the Eldoradoville inundation “never stopped until it brought up in San Pedro Harbor.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025
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
Rantasaur: The codger who goes on and on about how our smartphones make us stupid.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2017
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.
