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Thread #146595   Message #3753502
Posted By: GUEST,Allan Conn
25-Nov-15 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: Can a pop song become traditional?
Subject: RE: Can a pop song become traditional?
The Concise Oxford suggest "codger" meaning an old or strange person is perhaps a variant of "cadger".

Cadge means to beg for something so a cadger is a beggar.