ferricadouzer

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Italian [Term?].

Noun

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

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary