codgerly

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English

Etymology

codger +‎ -ly

Adjective

codgerly (comparative more codgerly, superlative most codgerly)

  1. Like a codger; old and ill-tempered.
    • 2008 June 16, Janet Maslin, “Truffle Hound and Trusty Snoop Unearth Grim Secrets”, in New York Times:
      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.