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Codger vs Codgerly - What's the difference?

codger | codgerly |

As a noun codger

is an amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.

As an adjective codgerly is

like a codger; old and ill-tempered.

codger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.

    • Derived terms

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    References

    * World Wide Words - Cadge

    codgerly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a codger; old and ill-tempered.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 16, author=Janet Maslin, title=Truffle Hound and Trusty Snoop Unearth Grim Secrets, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=So it is not surprising that the old boy finds himself in codgerly company these days. Ms. Rendell has ghoulish fun with the assorted elderly, eccentric characters who bedevil him in “Not in the Flesh,” which is only the third of her Wexford books to appear in this present century. }}