sock
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GenAm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɑk/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɒk/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology 1
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Scannedsocks.jpg/220px-Scannedsocks.jpg)
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gmw" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Phrygian or from other (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ine-ana" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. language. Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), German Socke (“sock”), Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”).
Noun
sock (plural socks or (informal, nonstandard) sox)
- A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
- A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors.
- A color pattern (usually white) on a cat's lower leg that is different from the color pattern on the rest of the cat, thus giving it the impression of a wearing a sock.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A sock puppet.
- (firearms, informal) A gun sock.
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Etymology 2
Unknown, but compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch"). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Alternative forms
- (W. Eng. dial.): zock
Adjective
sock (not comparable)
- (slang, dated) Extremely successful.
- 1960, Billboard magazine reviewer
- Sock performance on a catchy rhythm ditty with infectious tempo.
- 1960, Billboard magazine reviewer
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Noun
sock (plural socks)
- (slang) A violent blow; a punch.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21:
- ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
Verb
sock (third-person singular simple present socks, present participle socking, simple past and past participle socked)
- (slang, transitive) To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
- 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Book Four:
- They may let you off the first time because you're new maybe. But the second time they'll sock it to you, give you a couple of days in the Hole, then throw you in Number Two.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- (slang, transitive) To throw.
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Etymology 3
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French soc, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.
Noun
sock (plural socks)
- A ploughshare.
- D. Brewster, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
- In Wexford, the beam is shorter than in any of the other counties, and the sock in general is of cast iron.
- D. Brewster, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
Etymology 4
Noun
sock (plural socks)
- (computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.
Swedish
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Scannedsocks.jpg/220px-Scannedsocks.jpg)
Noun
sock c
Declension
Declension of sock | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sock | socken | sockar | sockarna |
Genitive | socks | sockens | sockars | sockarnas |
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References
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- sv:Footwear