Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a fake Lat. sfx used to create joc. emphasis from a n., e.g. scorchalorum.

1896		Ade Artie (1963) 87: ‘Does Mame ride?’ ‘Does she? She’s a scorchalorum.’.
1896		F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 49: ‘[W]hedder you calls it hipnytism er de plain old conalorum. I kinder t’ink you’re stringin’ me’.
1902		Ade Forty Modern Fables 241: You are what Charles Francis Adams would call a Peachalorum.
1902		‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 46: It looks to me like a cinchalorum, Bunch, a regular cinchalorum!
1922		S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 97: They can’t talk about anything but the weather and the ne-oo Ford, by heckalorum!
1940		F. Riesenberg Golden Gate 305: It’s a lot of bunkalorum [DA].
1957		D. Niland Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 101: Gord, where’s your old poppalorum?