A "sockdolager" is something that settles a matter, as with a decisive blow; it also means something that is extraordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State Journal-Register Home RSS] Reference

This sockdolager of a word has an unusual claim to fame in the US history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The missing booms: the best laid schemes o’ government an’ men…] Reference

Now the author of that particular play was an Englishman and he knew that sockdolager was an.    From Wordnik.com.  [America In So Many Words] Reference

sockdolager originally meant just a strong blow, like i-- ` That was a sockdolager of a punch you landed on me, 'or.    From Wordnik.com.  [America In So Many Words] Reference

Selya loves ten-cent words (Law Blog, adjusting for inflation, calls them five-dollar words), and has managed to work doozies like philotheoparoptesism, repastinate, sockdolager, and thaumaturgical, among others, into his opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Selya, we salute you] Reference

And for those that dont know what a sockdolager is….    From Wordnik.com.  [The missing booms: the best laid schemes o’ government an’ men…] Reference

"A regular sockdolager, isn't it, Gates?" said Walter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walter Sherwood's Probation] Reference

My favorite, I think, is sockdolager, which he defines as.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

Labels: Bruce Selya, Frederick Brodie, Law Blog, repastinate, sockdolager, Wall Street Journal posted by John McGrath @ 7: 26 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Selya, we salute you] Reference

Labels: Bruce Selya, Frederick Brodie, Law Blog, repastinate, sockdolager, Wall Street Journal posted by John McGrath @ 7: 26 PM 1 Comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Because we've had a sockdolager of a winter - long, windy, often bitterly cold, perhaps unprecedentedly snowy - most of us are feeling a little cabin feverish.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Well, that was quite a sockdolager for Pat, but Pat was was a very resourceful Gael, and he looked at this fellow very suspiciously, and he says, You ask me where it is?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reflections on the War] Reference

Fortunately, if you ever get into an argument with some of Youtube's subordinates about whether or not it receives most of its knowledge from "Charlatanism for Dummies", I have an excellent sockdolager for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

"Well, that was a sockdolager, 'cause twa'n't the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference

By gosh, that wer a sockdolager; I guess the big varmint is kinder gettin 'riled! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land] Reference

Your summation ‘minds me of a famous quote from Oscar Wilde, a real all-purpose sockdolager a body can invoke whenever necessity requires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Lou Reed on Net Neutrality] Reference

The real sockdolager came from President Fox’s own bailiwick, San Francisco del Rincón in the state of Guanajuato, where the PRI made a clean sweep winning the municipal presidency and the state and federal congressional seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who won the SMA mayoral race?] Reference

But c'mon, sockdolager?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Selya, we salute you] Reference

Comments: sockdolager!!??.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Selya, we salute you] Reference

` That was a sockdolager of a speech. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [America In So Many Words] Reference

Great Regulars: This was a sockdolager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Prof. METCALF: I think it's sockdolager.    From Wordnik.com.  [America In So Many Words] Reference

Is it sockdolager?.    From Wordnik.com.  [America In So Many Words] Reference

Time for a sockdolager….    From Wordnik.com.  [The missing booms: the best laid schemes o’ government an’ men…] Reference

"This was a sockdolager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

"Doxology -- sockdology -- sockdolager -- meter -- meet her.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Waifs and Strays Part 1] Reference

Yet again, there are the purely artificial words, e. g., sockdolager, hunky-dory, scalawag, guyascutis, spondulix, slumgullion, rambunctious, scrumptious, to skedaddle, to absquatulate and to exfluncticate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary] Reference

150 sob-sister, 190 soccer, 128 social disease, 150, 151 sockdolager, 96 socket, 405 sock-suspenders, 114, 118 sodalicious, 196 soda-mint, 195 soe, 231, 232 soft-drinks, 99, 116 soirée, 249 sold, 274 soli, 252 solicitor, 125 solid, 61 so long, 319 solos, 252 sombrero, 15, 101 some, 136, 362 someone else’s, 304 someone’s else, 304 some place, 182 some pumpkins, 41 somethin’, 318 something’s up, 188 somewhere, 182 somewheres, 307 somewheres else, 182 son-in-laws, 308 son-of-a-bitch, 154 son-of-a-gun, 154, 411 sonora, 196 sons-in-law, 308 soon, 219 soondáe, 405 soot, 219, 231, 232 sophomore, 57, 121 söpperéter, 412 soprani, 251 sopranos, 252 sorgum, 247 sörpreis-parti, 414 sort’a, 313.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference