floorer

English

Etymology

floor +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (measurement suffix) (sense 6)

Noun

floorer (plural floorers)

1. Someone who floors, lays flooring.
2. (UK) In skittles, the act of knocking down all of the skittles in one throw.
3. (informal) A knock-down blow.
4. (informal) A decisive retort.
5. (informal) A question that one cannot easily answer; a poser.
6. (in combination, rare) A building with the specified number of floors.
   • 1939, Thomas Oxenbridge, “Cavalcade of Architecture: An Interview with John Eberson”, in The Film Daily Cavalcade 1939, New York, NY: The Film Daily, page 238:

     You enter a skyscraper in an American city. The “theater” is a ten-floorer, the floors occupied by the theater running consecutively upward from ground. […] There are 10 auditoriums, one above the other in this 10-floorer, and in each auditorium the show is the same.

Translations

someone who floors

• Dutch: vloerder (nl) m

Anagrams

• forlore, refloor