codger
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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
Like the colonoscopy-conversing codgers in “The Chair,” Professor Cassovan presents as a familiar comic figure: the elderly curmudgeon upholding antiquated ideals.
From New York Times • May 13, 2022
For now, all those doubts about the NFL actually starting on time can be shoved aside as the sporting world savors these two QB codgers.
From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2020
As he is told in El Camino by wise, grizzled codgers, he made his situation and he can never put things right.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2019
I imagine that you, gentlemen, are hoping to prove the old codgers insane.
From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr
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