Sockdolager - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|sɒkˈdɒlədʒə|
Brit.
|sɒkˈdɒlədʒə|
noun
- 1838, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:
There is but one "˜sogdollager' in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.
- 1859, Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms"I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,"
- 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.
- (US, fishing) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.Extra examples
...the professor called it one sockdolager of a short story, but he seemed to be the only one in the room amused by this description...
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