Codgerly
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Like a codger; old and ill-tempered.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From codger + -ly.
More for "codgerly"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.