-eroo

a suffix that creates familiar, usu. jocular variations of semantically more neutral nouns; normally added to monosyllabic bases, or merged with bases ending in -er: flopperoo; smackeroo; switcheroo.

[perhaps extracted from buckaroo]

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The suffixes or combining forms that betray Spanish origin include the prolific -teria (washeteria, after cafeteria,) and the "parasitic" -aroo (jivaroo, wackaroo, etc.,) and -eroo (swingeroo, stinkeroo) which appeared in amusing slangy formations in the 1930s by analogy with buckaroo (< Sp.

Spanish contribution to American English word-stock: an overview (1)

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