ferricadouzer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from Italian [Term?].
Noun
[edit]ferricadouzer (plural ferricadouzers)
- (slang, obsolete, rare) A knockdown blow; a good thrashing.
- 1944, Benjamin Albert Botkin, A Treasury of American Folklore, page 752:
- "You goosesap", she shouted, "I've a notion to give you the worst ferricadouzer of your young life, shilly-shallying out there with that old chuckle-head."
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary