-eroo
factitious slang suffix as in boozeroo, brusheroo (brush n.2 8 b), flopperoo.
U.S. formations in -eroo, -aroo (e.g. buckaroo) are discussed in Amer. Speech (1942) XVII. 10f, and in T. Pyles Words & Ways Amer. Eng. (1952) 199.
| 1964 Guardian 8 July 7/6 Those jerkeroos feel embarrassed. |