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floorer

[ flawr-er, flohr- ]

noun

  1. a person who lays floors.
  2. a person, blow, etc., that knocks someone or something to the floor.
  3. Informal. something that beats, overwhelms, or confounds.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of floorer1

First recorded in 1785–95; floor + -er 1

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Example Sentences

His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer.

This was said with a kind of contempt which was quite a floorer to the new wiseacre.

Were your drawing rooms and your second floorer on terms of intimacy?

"Take that, then," said the other, and gave him a floorer; but he was prevented from falling by those around him.

Floorer, a blow sufficiently strong to knock a man down, or bring him to the floor.

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