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Offline Scunner

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Old Codger
« on: October 30, 2016, 17:35:51 PM »
No idea which section this should be in

I am pondering rubbish (as usual). What was a codger? The definition is an elderly person but that surely isn't the definition. It must have meant something in it's own right and then became adopted as a name for doddery folk?

So, what was a codger originally :D ?



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Re: Old Codger
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2016, 17:56:39 PM »


  Perhaps someone with a Heath Robinson approach to carrying out repairs.??

  I've always associated Codgers as people prepared to make short cuts.

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Re: Old Codger
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2016, 18:08:24 PM »
I thought that was bodger?

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Re: Old Codger
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2016, 18:12:57 PM »
I thought it might have meant a willy, but that's todger.

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Re: Old Codger
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2016, 18:19:23 PM »
Is it someone who rents a room ?

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Re: Old Codger
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2016, 18:20:25 PM »
Is that not Roger . .?

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« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2016, 18:28:02 PM »
I've just Googled the meaning of hodger. I wish hadn't now.  ;)

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Re: Old Codger
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2016, 19:08:17 PM »
"An old man, especially one who is eccentric, curmudgeonly or grotesque"  Now who on CBF would you think fits this description?  Should come up with some interesting answers  ;D 8) : :)

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Re: Old Codger
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2016, 19:09:06 PM »
About half of them

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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2016, 20:06:24 PM »
It depends on the person, some are Old Codgers in their Forties.  They get married , loose interest in how they look because they are married and have a partner, they settle down to be old.  Then there are the people who are forever young and never think about their age.  Age is a number to them.
I know quite a few people in both categories. 




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