Ulysses vocabulary

Dorine : The man's a crafty codger, Perhaps you'll find it difficult to catch him.

Elmire: Oh no! A lover's never hard to cheat, And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

Molière. Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite.

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Oh! I was going to tell you how many unmistakeable admirers I had:—Sir Thomas Ashby was one,—Sir Hugh Meltham and Sir Broadley Wilson are old codgers, only fit companions for papa and mamma.

Anne Brontë. Agnes Grey (1847)

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enthralled by a conversation between two old codgers, in which the responsibility for the recent destruction of an ancient barn was traced back through the intricacies of a local feud dating, so far as I could tell, from about 1790.

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Baldhead over the blind. Cute old codger. No use canvassing him for an ad. Still he knows his own business best.

James Joyce. Ulysses