codgerly

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more codgerly comparative most codgerly superlative

词源

From codger + -ly.
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