Humdinger vs Sockdolager - What's the difference?
humdinger | sockdolager |
Something that is particularly outstanding, unusual, or exceptional.
* 1961' (republished '''2010 ), (Joseph Heller), '' , London: (Vintage Books), , page 22:
(US, slang, obsolete) a hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow
* 1831 , (James Kirke Paulding), Lion of the West:
*:He’ll come off as badly as a feller I once hit a sledge hammer lick over the head—a real sogdolloger .
* 1838 , (James Fenimore Cooper), Home as Found:
*:There is but one ‘sogdollager ’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.
* 1859 , Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms
*:"I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,"
* 1884 , , Chapter 20.
(US, slang, obsolete) something exceptional, a whopper
* 1953 , (Ray Bradbury), (The Murderer):
*:Hey, Al, thought I'd call you from the locker room out here at Green Hills. Just made a sockdolager hole in one! A hole in one, Al! (etc.)
(US, angling) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.
As nouns the difference between humdinger and sockdolager
is that humdinger is something that is particularly outstanding, unusual, or exceptional while sockdolager is (us|slang|obsolete) a hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow.humdinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- Most of the questions were pretty easy, but that last one was a humdinger .
- [']I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger . I'm a bona fide supraman.' 'Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.
sockdolager
English
Alternative forms
* sockdologer * sogdollogerNoun
(en noun)- The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer .