英语词汇codger的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

codger. An old codger is generally a nuisance or an eccentric old man, but can also be a term of affection akin to “old chap” or “old fellow.” No dictionary honors the derivation, but both definitions may have been strengthened by the existence of a club called The Ancient Society of Cogers in London in the 1860s. The Cogers came onto the scene half a century after codger was first used in its whimsical sense, but they were well known, all prominent writers and artists. The debating club derived its name from the word “cognition” and these think- ing men, “ancient” at least by title, met at the Barley Mow Tav- ern on Fleet Street. (The tavern is now named The Cogers in their honor, though they moved to the Cock Tavern in 1921.) Codger probably comes from the Scottish cadger, for “a wan- dering peddler or beggar,” but it is not hard to imagine the Cogers’ influence on the word. “Ancient . . . Cogers” could eas- ily have become old codgers, meant either affectionately or derisively.

词汇	codger
词源	codger. An old codger is generally a nuisance or an eccentric old man, but can also be a term of affection akin to “old chap” or “old fellow.” No dictionary honors the derivation, but both definitions may have been strengthened by the existence of a club called The Ancient Society of Cogers in London in the 1860s. The Cogers came onto the scene half a century after codger was first used in its whimsical sense, but they were well known, all prominent writers and artists. The debating club derived its name from the word “cognition” and these think- ing men, “ancient” at least by title, met at the Barley Mow Tav- ern on Fleet Street. (The tavern is now named The Cogers in their honor, though they moved to the Cock Tavern in 1921.) Codger probably comes from the Scottish cadger, for “a wan- dering peddler or beggar,” but it is not hard to imagine the Cogers’ influence on the word. “Ancient . . . Cogers” could eas- ily have become old codgers, meant either affectionately or derisively.
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