floorer

[flawr-er, flohr-]

noun

a person who lays floors.
a person, blow, etc., that knocks someone or something to the floor.
Informal. something that beats, overwhelms, or confounds.

Origin of floorer

First recorded in 1785–95; floor + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for floorer

Historical Examples of floorer

Just fancy, sir, being able to give him a floorer without helping it.
Fix Bay'nets
George Manville Fenn
Were your drawing rooms and your second floorer on terms of intimacy?
Great Porter Square, v. 1
Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
Which to take the first of the turnstile wings is the floorer.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890
Various
"Take that, then," said the other, and gave him a floorer; but he was prevented from falling by those around him.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.
Pierce Egan
Floorer, a blow sufficiently strong to knock a man down, or bring him to the floor.
The Slang Dictionary
John Camden Hotten