They don't understand a poor little codger like Skinny who is half crazy, because he's been half starved.

Ethelyn had asked, and Frank had answered, "Looks well enough, though anybody with half an eye would know he was a codger from the West.

In her last letter to me she says, speaking of my daughter's marriage: I hope thirty years hence the twain will be as much in love with each other as two old codgers of my acquaintance, who go on talking heavenly nonsense to each other after the most approved fashion.