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sockdologer
/ sɒkˈdɒlədʒə /
noun
- a decisive blow or remark
- an outstanding person or thing
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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
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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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