(v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging.
(n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge.
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Codger
Definition:
(n.) A miser or mean person.
(n.) A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ironic that an experimental music veteran with 20 years behind him should be leading a fresh charge into the 90s, setting up the framework for Autechre, Aphex Twin and the whole intelligent dance music (IDM) scene, but the rise of sampling, rave and techno was the realisation of a music that codgers like Kirk had only been able to dream of decades earlier, prior to the arrival of the technology.
(2) Photograph: John Whale At Christmas my son gave me a large box labelled "The Old Codgers Glastonbury Survival Kit".
(3) Two backbenchers – one an old codger on the way down, the other a newcomer on the way up – are called upon to propose the ‘Humble Address’ when the Commons reconvenes.
(4) "The NHS is not for sale, you grey-haired manky codger!"
(5) At the same time, a repeat of BBC1 old codgers drama New Tricks won the slot, pulling in 4.8 million viewers, a 21% share, enough to beat ITV1's The Bill, which had 4 million and 18%.
(6) Judith McGrath Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands • We old codgers are not complacent of youth (Owen Jones, Opinion , 4 February), merely slightly surprised that its radical aspirations are merely to have a slice of the middle-class lifestyle we enjoy and wish to preserve.