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Codges vs Codger - What's the difference?

codges | codger |

As a verb codges

is (codge).

As a noun codger is

an amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.

codges

English

Verb

(head)
  • (codge)

    • codge

    English

    Verb

    (codg)
  • To patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.
  • * 1990 , Rosalind Miles, Ben Jonson: his craft and art (page 159)
    • this it was that branded him as one of the contemporary theatre's journeymen hack 'playwrights', in his own disparaging phrase, ready to turn a hand to anything, and able to codge up a play to order from any materials at hand.

    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