or socdologer, stockdologer, slogdologer, sogdologer, subs. (American).—1. Anything overwhelming or exceptional: from a repartee to an earthquake: generic. Also as verb. [Cf. SOCK.]
18[?]. CROCKETT, Bear Hunt [BARTLETT]. I gave the fellow a SOCDOLAGER over his head with the barrel of my gun.
1862. Punch, 9 Aug., 54, 1, Brother Jonathan’s Appeal to Brother Sambo.
| Up, Niggers! slash, smash, sack, and smite, | |
| SLOGDOLLAGIZE, and slay ’em. |
1883. LOWELL, To Mr. John Bartlett, who had sent me a seven-pound trout.
| Fit for an Abbot of Theleme, … | |
| He lies there, the SOGDOLOGER! |
1884. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, xx. The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another SOCKDOLAGER.
