Today is the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's assassination. There was a piece in the paper about the last line he heard (apparently one of the funniest in the play) before he was killed, which was: "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal, you sockdologizing old man trap!"

Sockdologizing is new to me. Apparently its origin is from the early 1800s, which makes sense, I guess. Have you heard of it?

It's interesting in that the word is a nonce word coined by the British author of the play from the (then) American slang sockdolager to give an American flavour to his character's speech.

In the Word history it spells it the British way: "sockdologising."

That makes sense since it was coined over here.