Sockdolager Definition

säkdäləjər
noun
Something final or decisive, as a heavy blow.
Webster's New World
Something outstanding.
Webster's New World
1838, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:
There is but one "˜sogdollager' in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.
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1859, Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms.
"I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,"
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1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 20.
The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit"”and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer.
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Other Word Forms of Sockdolager

Noun

Singular:
sockdolager
Plural:
sockdolagers

Origin of Sockdolager

  • Unknown, 1827 US, presumably fanciful variant of sock (“to hit"); compare contemporary absquatulate, blustrification, discombobulate, dumfungled, goshbustified, hornswoggle, and skedaddle.

    From Wiktionary

  • Various speculative etymologies have been suggested, such as corruption of doxology, due to this occurring at the end of church worship, hence “finality".

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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