ferricadouzer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps from Italian [Term?].

Noun[edit]

ferricadouzer (plural ferricadouzers)

  1. (slang, obsolete, rare) A knockdown blow; a good thrashing.
    • 1944, Benjamin Albert Botkin, A Treasury of American Folklore, page 752:
      "You goosesap", she shouted, "I've a notion to give you the worst ferricadouzer of your young life, shilly-shallying out there with that old chuckle-head."

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary