codger
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Providing a nonstop stream of eccentric social commentary, improbable memories and terrible jokes, Harry is an amiable codger who has no filter whatsoever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
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
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
Looking at Grandpa, Mama said, “Papa, this is the silliest thing I ever heard of, an old codger like you, going to town to read monkey books.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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