sockdolager 的定义
Older Slang.
- something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- a decisive reply, argument, etc.
- a heavy, finishing blow: His right jab is a real sockdolager.
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- She followed along behind him, and already in her thoughts she was the owner of the Sockdolager Mine.
- And then the big news broke–the Sockdolager had been found–and there was a stampede that went clear to the peaks.
- The fight for the Sockdolager Mine was on and Wunpost led off up the canyon with a swagger.
- This had to be the greatest sockdolager since Goebbels explained Stalingrad.
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Where does sockdolager come from?
Sockdolager, meaning a “decisive blow or remark,” is a 19th-century American original. The origin of such silly-sounding words like sockdolager are, often, sometimes just that—a fanciful act of silliness.
However, it’s sometimes claimed that the word combines sock with doxology, “a hymn or phrase praising God.”
A form of the word sockdolager in the play Our American Cousin may have been one of the last words President Abraham Lincoln heard right before he was assassinated in 1865.
Many more amusing Americanisms await in our slideshow “These Wacky Words Originated In The USA.”