sockdologer

/ sɒkˈdɒlədʒə /

noun

1. a decisive blow or remark
2. an outstanding person or thing

Word History and Origins

Origin of sockdologer¹

C19: of uncertain origin; perhaps from sock ² + doxology (in the sense: the closing act of a church service) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Late in the afternoon we arrived at a much worse place than the Sockdologer, though the fall was not so great.

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But his further utterance was stopped by the little drummer springing up and dealing him a 'sockdologer' under the ear.

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"That must've bin a sockdologer of a dose the Surgeon gave me," he muttered to himself.

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