-eroo

Word Origin

a suffix that creates familiar, usually jocular variations of semantically more neutral nouns; normally added to monosyllabic bases, or merged with bases ending in -er: flopperoo; smackeroo; switcheroo.

Origin

of unclear orig.; perhaps extracted from buckaroo, though this word appears to have been conformed to a preexisting suffix (or word), the stress and final tense vowel being otherwise unaccounted for

Related Words

buckaroo
flopperoo
jackeroo
peacherino
pipperoo
smackeroo

-erooColloquial

a suffix forming nouns referring to specified activities or actions, as in boozeroo, switcheroo.

[originally US, from the 1930s; popularised by US newspaper columnist Walter Winchell; origin uncertain, possibly mimicking such words as buckaroo, kangaroo, etc.]

-eroofactitious slang suffix as in boozeroo, brusheroo (brush n.² 8 b), flopperoo.U.S. formations in -eroo, -aroo (e.g. buckaroo) are discussed in Amer. Speech (1942) XVII. 10f, and in T. Pyles Words & Ways Amer. Eng. (1952) 199.1964Guardian 8 July 7/6 Those jerkeroos feel embarrassed.

-eroo

"factitious slang suffix" (OED), sometimes affectionate, forming nouns indicating "a humorous or remarkable instance" of what is indicated, in use by 1940s, perhaps from buckaroo. An earlier suffix in a similar sense is -erino (after 1900), apparently from -er + Italian suffix -ino.

-eroo /əˈru:/ suffix. colloq. (chiefly N. Amer., Austral., & NZ).

ORIGIN: Fanciful.

Forming nouns from verbs with the senses ‘large of the type or class’, ‘overwhelming’, ‘remarkable’, ‘unexpected’, as flopperoo, peacheroo, sockeroo, etc.

词汇	-eroo
词根词缀	Dictionary.com Macquarie OED Online Etymology Dictionary SOED -eroo Word Origin 1 a suffix that creates familiar, usually jocular variations of semantically more neutral nouns; normally added to monosyllabic bases, or merged with bases ending in -er: flopperoo; smackeroo; switcheroo. Origin of unclear orig.; perhaps extracted from buckaroo, though this word appears to have been conformed to a preexisting suffix (or word), the stress and final tense vowel being otherwise unaccounted for Related Words buckaroo flopperoo jackeroo peacherino pipperoo smackeroo -erooColloquial a suffix forming nouns referring to specified activities or actions, as in boozeroo, switcheroo. [originally US, from the 1930s; popularised by US newspaper columnist Walter Winchell; origin uncertain, possibly mimicking such words as buckaroo, kangaroo, etc.] -eroofactitious slang suffix as in boozeroo, brusheroo (brush n.² 8 b), flopperoo.U.S. formations in -eroo, -aroo (e.g. buckaroo) are discussed in Amer. Speech (1942) XVII. 10f, and in T. Pyles Words & Ways Amer. Eng. (1952) 199.1964Guardian 8 July 7/6 Those jerkeroos feel embarrassed. -eroo "factitious slang suffix" (OED), sometimes affectionate, forming nouns indicating "a humorous or remarkable instance" of what is indicated, in use by 1940s, perhaps from buckaroo. An earlier suffix in a similar sense is -erino (after 1900), apparently from -er + Italian suffix -ino. -eroo /əˈru:/ suffix. colloq. (chiefly N. Amer., Austral., & NZ). ORIGIN: Fanciful. Forming nouns from verbs with the senses ‘large of the type or class’, ‘overwhelming’, ‘remarkable’, ‘unexpected’, as flopperoo, peacheroo, sockeroo, etc.
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