-ola
a formative of no precise significance found in a variety of commercial coinages (crayola; granola; victrola) and jocular variations of words (cr-pola).
a suffix extracted from payola, used in coinages that have the general sense “bribery, especially covert payments to an entertainment figure in return for promoting a product, making an appearance, etc.” (playola; plugola).
-ola
commercial suffix, probably originally in pianola (q.v.).
-ola
suffix
used to form nouns an emphatic instance or humorous version of what is indicated: buckola/ cr-pola/ schnozzola
[1940s+; probably modeled on pianola2 and victrola2 , both found by 1905; -ola compounds proliferated after the charles van doren payola scandal of 1959; -ola compounds, numbering about 40, offer no real semantic core]
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