codger
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I don’t want to sound like an old codger, but the crowd should respond to what’s happening in a game.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2022
That old codger will coach in a fresh place after all this time: the Golden State Warriors’ house by the Central Basin of the San Francisco Bay, a 2½-year-old toddler among arenas.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 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
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
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