"david garrick's farce bon ton, 1775:  "my lord's servants call you an old out-of-fashion'd codger
"the origin of codger seems to lie in the complex links between cadger and codger (not as a contraction of 'coffin-dodger', as one of my more inventive correspondents has suggested)
""david garrick's farce bon ton, 1775:  "my lord's servants call you an old out-of-fashion'd codger" What is the definition of "codger"?