The *-eroo* suffix works as an intensifier of sorts, though it seems to have other less well-defined properties as well. The online OED has only this to say about the *-eroo* suffix: > **-eroo**, suffix factitious slang suffix as in *boozeroo* n., *brusheroo* (brush n.2 8b), *flopperoo* n. U.S. formations in *-eroo*, *-aroo* (e.g. buckaroo n.) 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. Etymonline's gloss is similarly disappointing: > The meaning [of *switch*] "a change from one to another, a reversal, an exchange, a substitution" is first recorded 1920; **extended form *switcheroo* is by 1933**. (Emphasis my own.) I would like to know where this suffix comes from and, if possible, why there isn't a better etymology. Any ideas?