Green’s Dictionary of Slang

-dom sfx

a sfx added to a n. to imply ‘the domain of’.

[Scot]D. Lyndsay Satyre of Thrie Estaits (1604) 101: Amang thir Abesses and thir Nunries, Thair publick huirdomes and thair harlotries.
[UK]H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth n.p.: What whoredomes, drunkennesse, swearing and abhominable Sodomie is daily practised?
[UK]R. Herrick ‘Upon Scobble’ Hesperides 47: Scobble for Whoredome whips his wife; and cryes, / He’ll slit her nose; [...] she replyes, / Good Sir, make no more cuts i’ th’ outward skin, / One slit’s enough to let Adultry in.
[UK]J. Ray Proverbs 227: Hooredome and grace, can never bide in one place.
Remonstrance of the Bachelors to Petition of Ladies for Husbands 2: Scarce one in a hundred that is married escapes Cuckoldom. And, Gentlemen, is not that great odds?
[UK]R. Estcourt Fair Example I i: I won’t be a Cuckold [...] I’m not for Cuckoldom.
[UK]R. Neve Merry Companion 156: There was Whoredom, and Roguedom, and Horndom, and Cuckoldom.
[Scot]Paisley Herald 24 Mar. 1/3: The world was recently well nigh brought to an untimely end by a collision between Beakdom and Bumbledom, or a clash between the Coroner’s jurisdictin and the police.
[US]M.J. Holmes ’Lena Rivers (1878) 79: Now if this isn’t the last specimen from Yankeedom.
[UK]Trollope Three Clerks (1869) 22: Hampton-Court, that well-loved resort of cockneydom.
[Aus]J. Rogers New Rush 45: Translated to the dell of darkiedom, / We find the population all ‘at home’.
[Ind]Bombay Gaz. 29 Dec. 2/6: Yankeedom could not afford to go to war with Brazil.
[UK]London Standard 13 Dec. 3/3: Graduating the scale of drunkeness from slight inebriation to the soaky state of gutterdom.
[UK]G.A. Sala Trip to Barbary 147: I hope the bays of Cockneydom will not be withheld from him.
[UK]Siliad 189: Ah! a strange fact it is that M.P.-dom, / Emasculates the sense of freedom.
[US]Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 9 June 3/3: The triumph of States Rights and White Supremacy may [...] lead to the secession of Yankeedom.
[UK]H. Smart Social Sinners II 175: Still in the blind state of puppydom!
[US]C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 46: The two Pierce’s had come out there from Yankeedom a few years before.
[NZ]Observer and Freelance (Wellington) 5 Sept. 3/3: Is there some malific influence working in all our public bodies — from the Government down to Bumbledom?
[UK]Morpeth Herald 27 Oct. 5/3: He said he was born in the heart of thiefdom near Birmingham.
[US]J. Hawthorne Confessions of Convict 10: Prisoners are known as ‘con’, which is short for convict, and the whole body of prisoners is designated ‘condom’ – short for convictdom.
[UK]Regiment 11 Apr. 27/2: It frequently happened [...] that the gentlemen in mufti took advantage of their office and let out for Yankeydom on their own account.
[US]Irving Jones ‘I Want a Filipino Man’ 🎵 When that strange Jap struts through Coondom, All the wenches stare.
[US]Boston Globe (MA) 10 June 7/5: A man born in Yankeedom is the greatest fighter in the world.
[US]E.H. Babbitt ‘College Words & Phrases’ in DN II:i 51: prepdom, n. 1. The period of preparation for college. 2. The state of being a preparatory student.
[US]J.D. Corrothers Black Cat Club 22: The belles of colored swelldom.
[SA]D. Blackburn Leaven 125: News travels fast in kafirdom.
[US]Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 30 June 31/3: Zimmerman [...] looked like a million dollars to Gotham fandom.
[US]‘A-No. 1’ Snare of the Road 24: The going down in defeat of a jocker at the hands of his road kid is considered in hobodom a conclusive proof that the kid has outlived his usefulness as a producer of alms.
[US] ‘Broncho versus Bicycle’ in J.A. Lomax Songs of the Cattle Trail 22: From a town they call Bosting, in old Yankeedom.
[US]E. Hemingway letter 17 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 427: I would like to take the tommy gun and open up at 21 or in the N.R. offices [...] and give shitdom a few martyrs.
[US]J.F. Dobie in Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) xv: The two Pierce’s had come out there from Yankeedom a few years before.
[US](con. 1937) C. Chessman Cell 2455 95: In L.A. he knew pimpdom’s wheels.
[US]B. Gonzales I Paid My Dues 99: The royalty of ‘Pimpdom’ was there.
[US]J.O. Killens ‘The Smoking Sixties’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) xv: The brothers and sisters are trying to throw off the shackles of ‘niggerdom’.
[US]L.K. Truscott IV Dress Gray (1979) 434: A slogan Slaight had seen on the bumpers of VW buses outfitted for hippiedom.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Oct.
[US]Eble Sl. and Sociability 33: Other productive suffixes used to form in-group vocabulary are [...] -dom ‘the domain of’ as in fratdom, geekdom, and jockdom.
[NZ]A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 72: The entire floor of this wing is full of your gang only, non-gangies floor above and floor below scared of us, they’re our subjects in our gangdom.