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Definition of Sockdologer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sockdologer
Literary usage of Sockdologer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1857 It is a " sockdologer" against all that hubbub wisdom which prefers the ...
1860 Anti rushed on, with great force, and planted a sockdologer on the ..."
2. Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Huck Finn by Mark Twain (2001)
"In my opinion it was just a sockdologer. It's only an opinion, it's only my
opinion and others may think different; but I said it then and I stand to it ..."
3. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"sockdologer, a heavy, knockdown blow. This word is usually considered to be an
Americanism. Uut it clearly comes from the " old country," from the Gaelic ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"In my opinion it was just a sockdologer. It's only an opinion, it's only my
opinion and others may think different; but I said it then and I stand to it now ..."
5. The Romance of the Colorado River: The Story of Its Discovery in 1540, with by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1902)
"The water being low, they were able to let their boats by line over the upper
end of the sockdologer with safety, but, in attempting to continue, ..."
6. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Virgil, Charles Anthon, C. Knipe, New York (State). Banking Dept, Emerson Willard Keyes, Mark Twain, Claire Giannini Hoffman (1899)
"In my opinion it was just a sockdologer. It's only an opinion, it's only my
opinion and others may think different; but I said it then and I stand to it now ..."
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