10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOCKDOLAGER»
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My Suicide Note: A
Sockdolager From Me To America
David Majlak. My Suicide Note A Sockdolager from Me to America David Majlak
My Suicide Note: A Sockdolager From Me To America. David. Front Cover.
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America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America
1827 sockdolager Entering the vocabulary by at least 1827, sockdolager was
already well enough established in American slang to be included in a glossary
published in the Virginia Literary Museum on January 6, 1830: " 'sockdolager,"a ...
Allan Metcalf, David K. Barnhart, 1999
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The United States Democratic Review
St. Sebastian Sockdolager, Esq., the editor of " The National Pop-Gun and
Universal Valve Trumpet," sat at a green table, elucidating an idea by the aid of a
steel pen and whitey-brown paper, and, therefore, St. Sebastian Sockdolager did
not ...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
St. Sebastian Sockdolager, Esq., the editor of “ The National Pop-Gun and
Universal Valve Trumpet,” sat at a green table, elucidating an idea by the aid of a
steel pen and whitey-brown paper, and, therefore, St. Sebastian Sockdolager did
not ...
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The U.S. Democratic Review
St. Sebastian Sockdolager, Esq., the editor of “ The National Pop-Gun and
Universal Valve Trumpet,” sat at a green table, elucidating an idea by the aid of a
steel pen and whitey-brown paper, and, therefore, St. Sebastian Sockdolager did
not ...
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Pocket Posh® Word Power: 120 Words that Are Fun to Say
“If punching parrots on the beak wasn't too painful for pleasure, I'd land you a
sockdolager on the muzzle that 'ud lay you out till Christmas.” —Norman Lindsay,
The Magic Pudding, 1918 Sockdolager originally meant just a strong blow.
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The United States Democratic Review
St. Sebastian Sockdolager, Esq., the editor of “ The National Pop-Gun and
Universal Valve Trumpet,” sat at a green table, elucidating an idea by the aid of a
steel pen and whitey-brown paper, and, therefore, St. Sebastian Sockdolager did
not ...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language
Sockdolager was coined in a particularly fertile period of American word creation,
the first quarter of the nineteenth century. In its earliest uses, it meant a knock-out
punch, and if Taylor had wanted to represent a Ixmdon street tough he could ...
Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, 1992
All day I had been bragging that my life jacket name was Sockdolager. We had
very successfully run and bailed out both Hance and Son of Hance. I was riding
this day in the rear of the raft with Jenny, one of the assistants. Between rapids
we ...
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Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River Through ...
The muttering of Sockdolager, the first rapid in the Upper Granite Gorge, drifts
upstream long before the rapid reveals itself. A nineteenth- century slang word
meaning "knockout blow," Sockdolager was named on the first Powell Expedition
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOCKDOLAGER»
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sockdolager is used in the context of the following news items.
PHOTOS: Vintage Base Ball At The Old Polo Field
A Mountain City "striker" makes contact with a "sockdolager" or decisive swing of the bat. - photo by Dennis Norwood. As each runner scores he must ring the ... «The Chattanoogan, Jun 15»
Instant Reaction: UFC 187
That said, Browne isn't great defensively and I can see Arlovski boxing him up a bit before Browne lands the major sockdolager strike and puts this one to bed. «Sherdog.com, May 15»
Where rocks have names: Running rapids on Western rivers
There's Grapevine, Sockdolager, Serpentine and Bass. Dubendorff is named for a plucky boatman who lost it in a 15-foot drop and though badly bruised, ran it ... «Cortez Journal, May 15»
A Red Orchid Theatre Extends ACCIDENTALLY, LIKE A MARTYR …
... Letters; Killing Hand and Sockdolager (Ensemble Studio Theater); Accidentally, Like A Martyr; I Could Say More (Other Side Productions); 33 To Nothing. «Broadway World, Feb 15»
Peyton Manning Has Had It With The Broncos' Scoreboard Operator
They're 6-1, just laid a sockdolager on their only realistic divisional challengers, and after the Patriots next week, have a stretch of four games against teams ... «Deadspin, Oct 14»
The Pep Hamilton Postgame Communique
A real sockdolager at the cheatin' hands of the striped devil-judge who had it in for us, see! That turkey was a wrong number from the get-go, sure as sawbucks! «NUVO Newsweekly, Sep 14»
Scott Thybony's Grand Canyon Commentaries: Cliffhanger
After a few gulps of water the alternate route no longer looked so long, and I continued on to Sockdolager Rapid. Tags: southwest book review · Grand Canyon. «KNAU Arizona Public Radio, Jul 14»
NFL Top-100 List: The joys of ranking players
You won't find any sockdolager in the results of a fan voting app (yes, I did traverse through several layers of synonym web searches to find a word I'd never ... «Field Gulls, May 14»
Joys of sleeping on a raft
With the unpredictable Sockdolager (which, when an oar crabbed, knocked out one of my teeth) now behind me. With Crystal (which flipped my oarboat on one ... «Daily Herald, Apr 14»
Kevin Fedarko's 'The Emerald Mile' follows 1983 river ride into …
Enter the cantankerous, independent, headstrong river guides, a "society of tanned swashbucklers," who lived to challenge the Colorado's rapids: Sockdolager, ... «Plain Dealer, May 13»
