sockdologizing

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Ambiguous term of abuse; scheming. nonce-word,not-comparable
    — "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Wal, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal — you sockdologizing old man-trap."

词源

Nonce word, from sockdolager + -ize + -ing. Coined 1858 by Tom Taylor for the play Our American Cousin. Taylor presumably learned sockdolager from Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) by John Russell Bartlett and used it to evoke Americanness in his play’s title character.
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