different between conger vs codger

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French congre, from Latin conger from Ancient Greek ??????? (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k????(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????/
• Homophone: conga (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

conger (plural congers)

1. Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters

   Synonym: conger eel

2. (historical) A chain of booksellers.

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.?er/, [?k????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.d??er/, [?k?n??d???r]

Noun

conger m (genitive congr?); second declension

1. conger eel

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Descendants

References

• conger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

Possibly derived from cadger (“hawker”). Or abbreviation of coffin dodger, but this is likely to be a folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d??(?)

Noun

codger (plural codgers)

1. An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 418]:

     Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old man

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