Crone vs Codger - What's the difference?
crone | codger |
(obsolete) An old woman.
* Dryden
An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
(obsolete) An old ewe.
(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
* Beaconsfield
* Washington Irving
As nouns the difference between crone and codger
is that crone is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman while codger is an amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.crone
English
Noun
(en noun)- But still the crone was constant to her note.
- (Tusser)
- A few old battered crones of office.
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.
