socdologer
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[edit]Noun
[edit]socdologer (plural socdologers)
- Alternative form of sockdolager (“finishing blow or conclusive argument”)
- 1854, Julia Ward Howe, Passion-flowers, page 128:
- Where-unto shall I liken Theologus, Planning attacks and preparing socdologers ?
- 1884, Liberty (Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order):
- Mr. J. K. Ingalls, in the introduction to his "Social Wealth," deals a few socdologers to economic sophisms.
- 1894, American Economist - Volumes 13-14, page 232:
- There is one clause, however, which my friend, Screechorn, says is a "socdologer."
- 1956, The Emory University Quarterly - Volumes 12-13, page 50:
- That was a socdologer, but Billy was socdologer proof, and after a moment's pause, he responded with an emphasis none can command but those who communicate important and undeniable truths.
- Alternative form of sockdolager (“something large or exceptional; a whopper”)
- 1870, Horace Elisha Scudder, The Riverside Magazine for Young People, page 148:
- Do not allow your mind to wander from your work, or the extra pull of a socdologer may send you off your pins, if you are standing on an uncertain foundation ; and the fish unhook himself, when by attention he could have been successfully landed.
- 1895, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Post Meridiana: Afternoon Essays, page 334:
- Let me turn aside to dwell on the pleasant remembrance of the capture of a real socdologer.
- 1987, Harvard Library Bulletin - Volume 33, page 323:
- This was partly occasioned by the confounded, socdologer of a foreman; partly, by the blunders of the compositors, a choir of journeymen & apprentices, as unlike our choice little group of Charley & Willard &c &c as Scotch snuff is unlike gold dust.