shockern.2int.
/ˈʃɒkə/, U.S. /ˈʃɑkər/ A. n.2
1.
a. Something which causes shock or surprise; an unexpected or startling event, revelation, or piece of news.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [noun] > one who or that which excites
fermentc1420
exciter1617
incendiary1628
electrifier1791
excitor1814
animation1817
shocker1824
hair-raiser1897
heartthrobber1903
heart-stopper1906
sizzler1942
turn-on1969
G-spot1983
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > state of being shocked > [noun] > shocking thing
overcome1821
shocker1824
gross-out1966
traumatism1973
trauma1977
1824 Bold Archy Drownded in R. Gilchrist Coll. Orig. Local Songs (2nd ed.) 6 A' gav' a skrike, (for weel, ye ken, a sight like this wad be a shocker).
1879 Funny Folks 26 Apr. 132/1 ‘But eat a rat!’ Just so—it's that Which constitutes the shocker.
1920 Derby Daily Tel. 18 Feb. (Third ed.) Crewton had the ball in the net in five seconds from the kick-off... This was a shocker, but in two minutes Heage equalised.
1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 17 June (1970) 291 Then Lyndon delivered the shocker of the evening.
1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 12 Oct. 1/3 This is the shocker for teachers in Bomo State.
2017 K. Kwan Rich People Probl. i. vi. 36 Fasten your seat belts, because boy do I have some shockers for you!
b. A novel, play, film, etc., which aims to shock; spec. (a) a novel written in a sensational or morbidly exciting style (in early use frequently in shilling shocker); (b) a horror film.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller
sensation novel1856
penny dreadful1861
dime novel1864
curdler1872
dreadful1874
blood and thunder1876
penny awful1880
shilling dreadful1885
thrill1886
thriller1889
blood1892
terror novel1896
penny horrible1899
spine-thriller1912
roman noir1926
spine-chiller1940
scorcher1942
spine-tingler1942
spine-freezer1960
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > horror film
horror film1936
Hammer horror1958
horror1958
giallo1965
schlocker1969
shlock horror movie1971
splatterpunk1988
shlock horror film1989
1885 Funny Folks 26 Dec. 411/1 The compositor who set up that shilling shocker ‘Hauled Down’, you know, which you lent me the other day.
1886 Evening Tel. (Dundee) 13 Apr. If the publisher is really being ruined by the ‘shockers’, and the public is really sick of them, it is evident that the publisher has the remedy in his own hands.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 July 6/2 Given plenty of sensational incident and a certain coherency of plot, and you have all that is necessary to make a ‘shilling shocker’.
1890 Athenæum 7 June 734/3 ‘For so Little’ has some of the qualities one looks for in the ‘shocker’; but the greatest of these is brevity, and that it has not got.
1946 Liberty 25 May 81/1 The Postman Always Rings Twice, adapted from James Cain's best-known novel.., ought to be a really good shocker.
1946 K. Tynan Lett. (1994) ii. 119 If I see any suitable shockers or bedroom farces in the Oxford bookshops, I will send them on to you.
2007 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 June 19/6 The R-rated shocker about disappearing backpackers in Europe.
2. colloquial. Something of an exceptionally poor standard or quality; a shockingly poor performance, production, etc. Also: a person of shockingly bad character.Rare in North American usage.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > offensive thing, person, or place > [noun]
bysena1525
bysym1568
bastard1675
nasty1825
objectionable1836
man-killer1876
undesirable1883
swine1892
stinker1917
bugger1922
pig1923
snake-pit1941
pisser1957
dickhead1960
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Gloss. 108 Shocker, a person of infamous character.
1871 Our Young Folks 23 Sept. 305/1 Ben..tried To hide His dirty knickerbockers; His clothes, His nose, Ribb'd hose, Boot toes Were all decided shockers.
1954 M. Croft Spare Rod i. ix. 62 A lot of people believe that to be a good writer a man must have a well-nigh perfect character... On the contrary, many of them have been perfect shockers.
1958 Manch. Guardian 7 June 4/7 The ‘musical’ is still in the ascendant. I caught one real shocker—‘Jamaica’. But the others..were fun.
1977 Horse & Hound 10 June 8/2 Lucky Sovereign ran a shocker, presumably either unable or unwilling to give his true running on this firm ground and/or the Epsom course.
2011 Sunday Times 22 May (Sport section) 4/7 England had a shocker at Twickenham, knocked out of the main event..on day one.
3. Any device designed to deliver an electric shock, esp. as an aid to catching fish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > other methods of fishing
tickling1616
twitchelling1689
yair-fishing1796
ice-fishing1842
foul-hooking1860
pointing1860
fish-wood1861
muddying1877
snatching1878
roll casting1897
jack fishing1899
cod jigging1921
free spooling1937
noodling1937
electrofishing1950
shocker1953
ghost fishing1963
catch-and-release1973
1857 Mass. Teacher & Jrnl. Home & School Educ. June 275 It is essentially the instrument called in America the Shocker... This instrument exhibits many of the effects of Static Electricity, but entirely fails to show other effects.
1861 Gardeners' Chron. 6 July 626/1 (headline) Galvanic slug and snail shocker.
1958 Canad. Fish Culturist xxiii. 37 The shocker has worked quite well in the streams fished so far where depths ranged from 6 inches to 3 feet.
1985 R. Silverberg Tom O'Bedlam i. iii. 32 She touched her fingertip to his arm and he felt a little sting, as though she had..tapped him with a shocker.
2008 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 72 267/2 We conducted fish sampling..using a single-pass electro-shock with a..backpack shocker.
4. colloquial. A device for absorbing jolts and vibrations on a vehicle; a shock absorber.Rare in North American usage.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > steering, suspension, or wheels > springs, etc., supporting chassis > shock-absorbers and dampers
shock-absorber1906
absorber1909
snubber1921
shimmy damper1928
shocker1949
shock1961
shox1976
1916 Boston Sunday Globe 9 Apr. 20/7 1915 Model 80 R, driven less than 8000 miles..is equipped with Flenzie shockers, bumper, Brown spring oilers, latest Kellogg tire pump [etc.].
1969 Guardian 23 Aug. 5/8 The models with worn shockers were thrown from side to side.
1977 Caravan World (Austral.) Jan. 19/2 Incorrect loading on the tow-ball..results in overloaded tyres, springs and shockers if the weight is forward.
2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 27 July 6 The shockers are put through a few tests.
B. int.
colloquial. Used sarcastically to express that something (esp. an occurrence that is undesirable or upsetting to the speaker) is unsurprising or was expected.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] > ironical
wonders will never cease1828
surprise1953
Mary1968
1991 C. Eble UNC-CH Campus Slang (typescript) Fall 5 X: 'I'm going out tonight.' Y: 'Shocker! You go out every night.'
2012 K. Garbera Ready for her Close-up i. 15 ‘I just like to follow the rules,’ she said. ‘I don't.’ ‘Shocker,’ she said. He laughed.
2022 @bellakaos80 18 May in twitter.com (accessed 26 May 2022) Did not get out of work on time... Shocker [‘face with rolling eyes’ emoji].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
shockern.2
/ˈʃɒkə/, U.S. /ˈʃɑkər/ One who piles sheaves in shocks.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > one who stacks
stacker1757
shocker1786
mowyer1888
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > one who
cocker1392
stookera1642
shocker1827
pooker1893
1786 G. Washington Diary 15 July (1925) III. 91 For every two Cradlers to allow 4 rakes, 1 shocker, and two Carriers.
1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 71 Some o'er the rustling scythe go bending on; And shockers follow where their toils have gone.
1895 Voice (N.Y.) 28 Nov. 7/4 He rides a harvester, and rapidly tumbles his wheat sheaves..into convenient bunches for the one lone shocker to set up and cap.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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