My friend, Samuel Boot, is a codger – a very fine codger indeed. At 72 years of age, he has earned the status and is proud of the designation because not everyone can be a codger. My brother-in-law, ...

A creaky train wreck of a man, the Cloaked Codger of Whiskey Ditch had long ago lived his prime life. By the early 1930s, having been reduced to a mere shell of a being, this gasping, grimy, wretch of ...

Regarding Lance Morrow’s “OK Boomer? Bernie, Biden and Bloomberg Are Older Still” (op-ed, Feb. 27): I think the proposed publication would be better called “Codger and Crone,” but either way, I’ll ...

What are the origins of the terms "codger" and "whippersnapper"? Is there such a thing as a young codger or an old whippersnapper? Whippersnapper is easy. Codger is a bit more complicated. Some people ...

An inquiry came recently to hand from a gentleman somewhere in Cyberspace. He asked, "What is the difference between a codger, a geezer and a coot?" This is the kind of question that keeps a writer ...

As I am quickly approaching my 75th year, I had to chuckle at Danny Heitman’s definition of a “codger” (“Envy the Old Codger,” op-ed, June 6). I wander in public wearing clothing that my wife frowns ...

COLFAX – The Codger Pole is a towering, 65-foot wood structure created to commemorate a game of touch football played by 70-year-old men in 1988. The game was a rematch of a 1938 battle between Colfax ...

Only a few minutes into a Zoom call and the Camp Codger guys are having what they call a “codger moment.” Richard Kipling, a retired Los Angeles Times journalist and one third of the codgers in the ...