floorer

[ flawr-er, flohr- ]

/ ˈflɔr ər, ˈfloʊr- /

a person who lays floors.

a person, blow, etc., that knocks someone or something to the floor.

Informal. something that beats, overwhelms, or confounds.

Origin of floorer

First recorded in 1785–95; floor + -er¹

"Take that, then," said the other, and gave him a floorer; but he was prevented from falling by those around him.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. |Pierce Egan
Skittles has within the past few years received an awful blow—quite a floorer—from the powers that be.

The Slang Dictionary |John Camden Hotten
Which to take the first of the turnstile wings is the floorer.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 |Various
This was said with a kind of contempt which was quite a floorer to the new wiseacre.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 |Various

Floorer, a blow sufficiently strong to knock a man down, or bring him to the floor.

The Slang Dictionary |John Camden Hotten