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ker- U.S. vulgar.
Also occasionally ke-, ca-, ka-, che-, co-.
The first element in numerous onomatopœic or echoic formations intended to imitate the sound or the effect of the fall of some heavy body, as kerchunk, ker-flop, ker-plunk, ker-slam, ker-slap, ker-slash, ker-souse, ker-swash, ker-swosh, ker-thump, ker-whop, etc.
1836Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 27 July (Th.), Down I came chewallop..and overset the chair. 1843Major Jones's Courtship i. (Farmer), Kerslash! I went rite over Miss Stallinses spinnin' wheel onto the floor. Ibid. (Bartlett), Kerslosh he went into a tub of water. 1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 88 We drew up co-wallop right afore Jase's house. Ibid. 154 Ca-smash went the chair. 1850Americans at Home I. (Bartlett), The dugout hadn't leaped more'n six lengths from the bank, afore..ke-souse I went. 1854M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine 2 Then, again, you'll go in co-slush. 1855Spirit of Times 29 Sept. 387/1 And the fust thing you knows he falls and down he comes kerflumix. 1858S. P. Avery Harp of Thousand Strings 44 He fell ‘kerslap’ upon the hot goose of the pressman! 1875My Opin. & Betsey Bobbet's 99, I fell kerslap over a rail that lay in the grass. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxiii. 234 Jes' den, 'long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, ker-blam! 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 85 They hoists him over and lets him go ker-whop. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 127/2 Across the lower end of the swamp..back we go kerslosh-kersplash for another quarter of a mile. 1899F. T. Bullen Way Navy 52 Down came the bunch of sacks kerslam on the deck below. 1903Outing XLIII. 83/1 The sound made by the water when the frog dives, we used to express when we were boys, by the word ‘kerplunk’. 1908Magnet I. 1, ‘Ker-woosh!’ ejaculated the junior, as he sprawled on the floor over Harry Wharton's legs. ‘What's that in the way?’ 1923Public Opinion 15 June 565/1 With both feet set down kerplunk he closed the interview. 1926F. M. Ford Man could stand Up ii. iv. 164 Kerumph—the wagons of coal would fly over until we recalled our planes. 1935H. G. Wells Things to Come xi. 96 Can I go when I grow up? And see the other side of the moon! And plump back ker-splosh! into the sea! 1937New Masses 26 Oct. 18/1 Their [sc. Hollywood journalists'] vernacular divides the failures into three subdivisions: flop, flopperoo, and ker-plunk. 1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Pract. Cats 17 Growltiger to his vast surprise was forced to walk the plank. He who a hundred victims had driven to that drop, At the end of all his crimes was forced to go ker-flip, ker-flop. 1939J. Cary Mr. Johnson 41, I go trow him..In de river Thames, kersplash. 1942Z. N. Hurston in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 26/2 Ker-blam-er-lam-er-lam! And dat was de last of Brer Engine-driving Monk. 1959M. Gilbert Blood & Judgment vi. 59 The boat hit the surface with a solid ker-splash. 1963Punch 30 Jan. 178/2 The boot..kerplonked to the carpet as straight and true as Newton's apple. 1963New Yorker 29 June 26 That's why I nearly went kerplunk when you walked out of here with him. 1970Observer (Colour Suppl.) 15 Feb. 36/4 They wear..extraordinary bathing costumes with Mighty Mouse zigzags across their chests, so that one half-expects them to rush about the beach shouting ‘Pow!’ and ‘Zap!’ and ‘Kerrump!’ |