-dom sfx
a sfx added to a n. to imply ‘the domain of’.
Satyre of Thrie Estaits (1604) 101: Amang thir Abesses and thir Nunries, Thair publick huirdomes and thair harlotries. | ||
Vertues Common-wealth n.p.: What whoredomes, drunkennesse, swearing and abhominable Sodomie is daily practised? | ||
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. | ‘Upon Scobble’||
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? | ||
Fair Example I i: I won’t be a Cuckold [...] I’m not for Cuckoldom. | ||
Merry Companion 156: There was Whoredom, and Roguedom, and Horndom, and Cuckoldom. | ||
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. | ||
’Lena Rivers (1878) 79: Now if this isn’t the last specimen from Yankeedom. | ||
Three Clerks (1869) 22: Hampton-Court, that well-loved resort of cockneydom. | ||
New Rush 45: Translated to the dell of darkiedom, / We find the population all ‘at home’. | ||
Bombay Gaz. 29 Dec. 2/6: Yankeedom could not afford to go to war with Brazil. | ||
London Standard 13 Dec. 3/3: Graduating the scale of drunkeness from slight inebriation to the soaky state of gutterdom. | ||
Trip to Barbary 147: I hope the bays of Cockneydom will not be withheld from him. | ||
Siliad 189: Ah! a strange fact it is that M.P.-dom, / Emasculates the sense of freedom. | ||
Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 9 June 3/3: The triumph of States Rights and White Supremacy may [...] lead to the secession of Yankeedom. | ||
Social Sinners II 175: Still in the blind state of puppydom! | ||
Texas Cow Boy (1950) 46: The two Pierce’s had come out there from Yankeedom a few years before. | ||
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? | ||
Morpeth Herald 27 Oct. 5/3: He said he was born in the heart of thiefdom near Birmingham. | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
🎵 When that strange Jap struts through Coondom, All the wenches stare. | ‘I Want a Filipino Man’||
Boston Globe (MA) 10 June 7/5: A man born in Yankeedom is the greatest fighter in the world. | ||
DN II:i 51: prepdom, n. 1. The period of preparation for college. 2. The state of being a preparatory student. | ‘College Words & Phrases’ in||
Black Cat Club 22: The belles of colored swelldom. | ||
Leaven 125: News travels fast in kafirdom. | ||
Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 30 June 31/3: Zimmerman [...] looked like a million dollars to Gotham fandom. | ||
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. | ||
‘Broncho versus Bicycle’ in Songs of the Cattle Trail 22: From a town they call Bosting, in old Yankeedom. | ||
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. | letter 17 Dec. in Baker||
Texas Cow Boy (1950) xv: The two Pierce’s had come out there from Yankeedom a few years before. | in Siringo||
(con. 1937) Cell 2455 95: In L.A. he knew pimpdom’s wheels. | ||
I Paid My Dues 99: The royalty of ‘Pimpdom’ was there. | ||
Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) xv: The brothers and sisters are trying to throw off the shackles of ‘niggerdom’. | ‘The Smoking Sixties’ in King||
Dress Gray (1979) 434: A slogan Slaight had seen on the bumpers of VW buses outfitted for hippiedom. | IV||
Campus Sl. Oct. | ||
Sl. and Sociability 33: Other productive suffixes used to form in-group vocabulary are [...] -dom ‘the domain of’ as in fratdom, geekdom, and jockdom. | ||
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. |