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sockdolager U.S. slang.|sɒkˈdɒlədʒə(r)|
Also slock-, slog-, sog-, soc-, -dologer, -dollager, and sock dologer, -doliger.
[prob. a fanciful formation.]
1. A heavy or knock-down blow; a finisher. Also fig.
1830Virginia Literary Museum I. 479 Sock dologer, a decisive blow. 1836Haliburton Clockm. i. xl, I'll give you a sockdologer in the ear with my foot. 1838Ibid. ii. xix, I felt my fingers itch to give him a slock-dolager under the ear. a1859in Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 425, I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun. 1892Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 36 ‘Yes,—I—reckon it will be a—sockdolager!’ mutters her father's friend.
2. A form of fish-hook (see quot.).
1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 319 Socdolager, a patent fish⁓hook, having two hooks which close upon each other by means of a spring as soon as the fish bites.
3. Something exceptional in any respect, esp. a large fish.
1838J. F. Cooper Home as Found II. 72 There is but one ‘sogdollager’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego. 1842Knickerbocker XIX. 223 This seemed to be a ‘socdoliger’ (which translated into Latin, means a ne plus ultra). 1869Lowell To Mr. J. Bartlett 5 Fit for..The Pope himself to see in dream Before his lenten vision gleam, He lies there, the sogdologer. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xx. 192 The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away,..and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer. 1894Blackw. Mag. Feb. 229 The pleasant remembrance of the capture of a real socdologer. |