sock

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

Socks

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 290: 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 290: 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)

  1. A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
  2. A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors.
  3. 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.
  4. (Wikimedia jargon) A sock puppet.
  5. (firearms, informal) A gun sock.
Derived terms
Terms derived from sock (noun)
Descendants
  • Swahili: soksi < socks (plural)
  • Japanese: ソックス (sokkusu) < socks
Translations
sock puppet — see sock puppet
gun sock — see gun sock

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)

  1. (slang, dated) Extremely successful.
    • 1960, Billboard magazine reviewer
      Sock performance on a catchy rhythm ditty with infectious tempo.
Synonyms

Noun

sock (plural socks)

  1. (slang) A violent blow; a punch.

Verb

sock (third-person singular simple present socks, present participle socking, simple past and past participle socked)

  1. (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.
  2. (slang, transitive) To throw.
Derived terms
Translations
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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)

  1. 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.

Etymology 4

Noun

sock (plural socks)

  1. (computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.

Swedish

Socks

Noun

sock c

  1. sock

Declension

Declension of sock 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sock socken sockar sockarna
Genitive socks sockens sockars sockarnas

See also

References

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