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sockdologer

/ sɒkˈdɒlədʒə /

noun

  1. a decisive blow or remark
  2. an outstanding person or thing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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

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

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