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Definition: Codger |
CodgerNoun1. Used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "codger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Note: Codger \Codg"er\, noun. [Compare to Cadger.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | CODGER. An old codger: an old fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CodgerSynonym: old codger (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Parsimony | Miser, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian; pinch fist, pinch penny. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Codger" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Codger" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "codger": an old codger ♦ old codger. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
codger | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "codger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri i çuditshëm (eccentric, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy). (various references) | |
Arabic | شخص غريب الأطوار (crack, curious, eccentric, erratic, quiz). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чудак (case, crank, cure, eccentric, faddist, odd-ball, oddity, original, quiz, weirdie, weirdy), чешит (quiz, screwball), ексцентрично старче. (various references) | |
Czech | podivín (crank, eccentric, freak). (various references) | |
Farsi | ادم عجیب وغریب , ادم خسیس وپست . (various references) | |
French | drôle de vieux bonhomme. (various references) | |
German | kauz (cuss, fogey, little owl, oddball, screech owl, strange fellow). (various references) | |
Greek | παράξενοσ (bizarre, crotchety, curious, eerie, freakish, funny, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, strange). (various references) | |
Hungarian | furcsa alak (caution, odd fish, rum cove, rumiqueer stick, spook). (various references) | |
Italian | tipo (bloke, chap, customer, fellow, guy, Jack, kind, manner, model, pattern, sort, specimen, strain, type). (various references) | |
Manx | shenn 'er (forebear, old buffer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odgercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pessoa excêntrica (quiz, screw-ball). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãtrân ciudat. (various references) | |
Russian | чудак (card, faddist, freak, gink, nut, odd card, odd fish, oddball, queer bird, queer card, queer customer, queer fish, rum customer, rum fellow, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osobenjak (crank, eccentric, type, unco). (various references) | |
Spanish | vejete (gaffer). (various references) | |
Swedish | gubbstrutt (dodderer, old codger). (various references) | |
Thai | ชายแก่ (gaffer), คนแก่ที่ทำตัวแปลกๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | tip (bakhshish, baksheesh, bugger, cast, cuss, customer, cut, guy, ilk, job, Johnny, norm, number, perk, perquisite, person, pourboire, sort, specimen, style, tip, type, vintage), garip (awkward, bizarre, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), antika adam. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупий старик, скнара (chuff, churl, clam, curmudgeon, miser, nip-cheese, piker, save-all, scraper, skinflint), дивак (case, caution, crotcheteer, eccentric, faddist, maggot, oddball, oddbod, oddity, original, quiz, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cụ gi lẩm cẩm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "codger": codgers. (additional references) | |
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"Codger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bodger, bodgery, Cgdgbe, codder, codge, Codigoro, cogar, coger, Cogger, couger, goldgar, hodgart, Kidger, Koder, kodge, ocger, todger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "codger" (pronounced 'Codg"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-o-r" | |
-1 letter: coder, cored, credo, decor, gored. | |
-2 letters: cero, code, coed, cord, core, deco, doer, doge, dore, dreg, ergo, goer, gore, ogre, redo, rode. | |
-3 letters: cod, cog, cor, doc, doe, dog, dor, ego, erg, ged, god, gor, ode, orc, ore, rec, red, reg, roc, rod, roe. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, er, go, od, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-o-r" | |
+1 letter: codgers, cordage, ergodic. | |
+2 letters: cordages, grouched, recoding, scourged, scrouged. | |
+3 letters: clangored, converged, deforcing, endoergic, precoding, recording, redocking, scrounged. | |
+4 letters: androgenic, becrowding, chowdering, clangoured, coderiving, coenduring, configured, congressed, cordelling, corrigenda, corrugated, cradlesong, curmudgeon, decoloring, decorating, decrowning, defrocking, discourage, dogcatcher, encouraged, endergonic, ergodicity, gasconader, gridlocked, ideogramic, outcharged, proceeding, radiogenic, recognised, recognized, recordings, scowdering. | |
+5 letters: becowarding, bedcovering, cardiogenic, categorised, categorized, codirecting, congregated, considering, constringed, copyreading, copyrighted, cordgrasses, coredeeming, corrigendum, cradlesongs, curmudgeons, decolouring, demographic, dendrologic, discouraged, discourager, discourages, discovering, dogcatchers, gasconaders, glucuronide, godchildren, goldbricked, ideogrammic, ideographic, nonreducing, overcharged, overdecking, proceedings, recodifying, reproducing, rerecording, retroceding, ropedancing, scattergood, sockdolager, sockdologer, sugarcoated, tragicomedy. | |
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