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1 чудак
1. codger2. odd fishчудак, странный человек — odd fish
чудак, странный тип, человек с причудами — odd card
3. queer fishразг. человек с причудами, чудак — queer bird
чудак, человек с причудами — queer duck
4. weirdo5. crank; character6. eccentric7. originalСинонимический ряд:оригинал (сущ.) оригинал; сумасброд; чудила -
2 он старый чудак
Australian slang: he's an old codger -
3 старый чудак
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4 старый хрен
груб.-прост.old geezer (duffer, codger); old coot (goat); old bag; old grumbler; old foggyГрузовик натужно взвыл. - Будь здоров, старый хрен! - обидно крикнул мужчина. (А. Лиханов, Мой генерал) — The lorry gave a roar. 'Cheerio, old geezer!' yelled one of the men insultingly.
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5 старый гриб
прост., пренебр.cf. old fogy (fogey, grumbler, bloke, buffer, card, codger, duffer, geezer)- Я совсем один, ни жены, ни детей, ни внуков, только мисс Бак, такой же старый белый гриб, как и я. (В. Черняк, Час пробил) — 'I'm utterly alone: no wife, no children, no grandchildren... Only Miss Bach, just as old a fogey as me.'
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6 чудак
1) General subject: a funny little chap, a queer card, a queer specimen, an excentric man, an odd bird, case, cough drop, crackpot, crank, cure, droll fellow, eccentric, erratic, excentric, faddist, fantast, foul ball, freak, fruitcake, gay bird, jigger, kook, maverick, nut, odd card, odd egg, odd fish, oddball, oddity, original (о человеке), queer (rum) devil, queer bird, queer card, queer customer, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, queer stick, ratbag, rum fellow, rummy fellow, run customer, screw ball, squirrel, strange card, strange dude, strange fish, viewy person, way out, odd bird, bats in the belfry, geek, nerd, rare bird4) Obsolete: quiz5) Australian slang: a queer fish, dingbat, hatter, wacko6) Jargon: curer, curing, dude, food for the squirrels, lamb, oddbod, psycho, schmoe, screwball, weirdy, wierdie, zombie, ice cream (He's not bad old ice cream.), fridge (He’s a right fridge.), lemon (I saw that lemon we met in the rub-a-dub last night.), dorf, odd-ball, pretzel-bender, prune7) American English: dink8) Makarov: an eccentric man, an original man, eccentric man, original man, queer devil, rum devil
См. также в других словарях:
old codger — noun used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man • Syn: ↑codger • Hypernyms: ↑old man, ↑greybeard, ↑graybeard, ↑Methuselah … Useful english dictionary
old codger — /oʊld ˈkɒdʒə/ (say ohld kojuh) noun Colloquial → codger (def. 1) …
old codger — noun An old man … Wiktionary
codger — Etymologically a variant of ‘cadger’, but ‘codger’ applied to a man does not imply that he cadges money. ‘Codger’ is a whimsical term, used with little reverence, of or to an old man. The term is familiar in Britain, and is to some extent kept … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
codger — noun (C) informal old codger an old man: He s a charming old codger … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
codger — /ˈkɒdʒə / (say kojuh) noun Colloquial 1. Also, old codger. a man, especially elderly: *He s an old codger, sixty three and she s only thirty or so, it s a terrible difference, isn t it? –christina stead, 1944. 2. a mean, miserly person. {?… …
old man — noun 1. a man who is very old (Freq. 38) • Syn: ↑greybeard, ↑graybeard, ↑Methuselah • Hypernyms: ↑oldster, ↑old person, ↑senior citizen, ↑golde … Useful english dictionary
Codger — 1. mean, miserly person; 2. odd or peculiar (old) person: a lovable old codger ; 3. fellow; chap (18th C. British slang) … Dictionary of Australian slang
codger — Australian Slang 1. mean, miserly person; 2. odd or peculiar (old) person: a lovable old codger ; 3. fellow; chap (18th C. British slang) … English dialects glossary
codger — cod|ger [ˈkɔdʒə US ˈka:dʒər] n [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Perhaps from cadger; CADGE] old codger informal not polite an offensive word for an old man … Dictionary of contemporary English
codger — [[t]kɒ̱ʤə(r)[/t]] codgers N COUNT: usu adj N (disapproval) Old codger is a disrespectful way of referring to an old man … English dictionary