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SOCKDOLAGER

[sok-DOL-uh-jer]

DEFINITION:

-noun 

1. A decisive reply, argument. 
2. Something unusually large, heavy, etc.
3. A heavy, finishing blow.

EXAMPLES: 

1. WHACK! - bum! bum! bumble-umble-um-bum-bum-bum-bum - and the thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit - and then RIP comes another flash and another sockdolager.  - Mark Twain, The Adventures if Huckleberry Finn
2. "Your first day awake with us was some sockdolager," Andy said. "You handled them sharps slick as grease."  - Darryl Brock, If I Never Get Back

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WORD :: Expanding My Vocab One Word At A Time.

KATZENJAMMER

[KAT-suhn-jam-er] 

DEFINITION:
 

-noun

1. The discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover. 
2. Uneasiness; anguish; distress.

-noun

1. Uproar; clamor. 

EXAMPLES: 

1. So the asceticism and self-denial of the ancient anchorite and saint was merely a form of katzenjammer?   - Nietzsche, Thoughts Out Of Season  
2. Ninety to a hundred days at sea, with dysentery, beri-beri, crabs, lice, rabies, yellow jaundice, malaria, katzenjammer and other oceangoing delights.  - Miller, Nexus