sockerooni schloss

Something that knocks your socks off.

I agree with #1. According to the Urban Dictionary, socko means strikingly impressive, so I imagine that sockerooni is a sort of mock superlative of socko.

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Thanks #1 and #2,3 :)

It sounds like dated schoolboy slang to me. Something like "splendiferous".

There is a Newman's Own Sockarooni Pasta Sauce Described as:
>The sock-it-to-em pasta sauce that knocks your socks off. Peppers, spices, and the whole shebang! An intimate companion your pasta will never forget.
>Legend: sockarooni/sock it to 'em. Spaghetti sauce all alone by itself, just sitting out there naked will blow your socks off! Take yourself back to 1833 when Neapolitan adventures in St. Louis concocted this specific sauce, ingesting some, gathering strength, courage, endurance and wit to wrassle 1,000-pound bears. 150 Years later fortify myself with Sockarooni to wrassle my own private bear - which is just gittin through the day. P.S. non-vegetarians add meat as desired. - P. Loquesto Newman.

"Socko" sounds to me like something Variety, the show business newspaper, would have used in its heyday of slang use in headlines, say 1940-1960. (Stix Nix Hix Flix meaning "Movies about hillbillies are not doing well in rural areas," being the most famous example.)

The suffix -aroony was a favorite of Slim Gaillard in the jive language he called Vout, c. 1950. Laguna Oroonee.

Edited by: VinnyD to add link.

And I see that "socko" is Varietyspeak, according to Variety.

I don't think Variety invented it. The earliest citation I found was "1924 Dialect Notes V. 258 Sock-o (blow)." I found references ot 1920s baseball players nicknamed Socko, and "socko used to describe a hit ball or a hard football tackle.

From 1930 "Side-show showmanship has hit the boys socko, right "between the eyes, with the result that at times you can hardly hear the actors on the screen for the clatter of barkers, song-plugger.s and amusement machines in the lobbies."

I also found a 1929 magazine article "Socko, Whamo and Sonk! Effect of the Movies (and Talkies) on the English." The author says that "socko" is movie studio jargon for noise made by a punch to the jaw. ("Whamo" is the return punch. "Sonk," according ot a slang dictionary, is what we'd now call "zonked," as in "zonked out.")

I'll bet Variety picked it up from Hollywood.