socksies

English

Alternative forms

• sockies

Etymology

From sock +‎ -sies.

Noun

socksies pl (plural only)

1. (childish) Socks.
   • 1924 November 15, I. M. Becile [pseudonym], “Wit and Half-Wit”, in Maurice Ellington, editor, The Centenary Conglomerate, volume 15, number 7, Shreveport, La.: Centenary College, page 4, column 3:

     BUT HIS SOCKSIES WILL NEVER BE SPATS / Roy: You say Winks is ultra-collegiate? / Clyde: Yeh. He shows a complete reaction from plain collegiateness. He’s even wearing garters again.—Ohio Sun Dial.

   • 1992, Thelma Barlow, “Coping with Pests and Diseases”, in Organic Gardening with Love, London: Robson Books Ltd, published 1994, →ISBN, page 145:

     Midges and flies, / Midges and flies / Crawl up my nose, / Down my bra, in my eyes, / They’re driving me crazy, / These flysies and midges. / They’re into my socksies / And into my britches.

   • 2001, R[ichard] M[orton] Koster, “Action”, in Glass Mountain, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, section [4], page 132:

     Now I’ll get his little shoes . . . Now his socksies . . .

   • 2010, Barbara Joosse, Sleepover at Gramma’s House‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Philomel Books, →ISBN:

     Well I’m going there this minute / to the Gramma who is in it / and the Doozie who is barking / and I’m bouncing bouncing bouncing / and I’m flipping off my shoesies / and I’m rolling down my socksies / and I’m sighing / and I’m singing / and I’m . . . / THERE!

   • 2013, Miriam Glassman, Call Me Oklahoma!, New York, N.Y.: Holiday House, →ISBN, page 57:

     “Biloxi’s in her socksies!” teased Viveca. “Lost her shoe, now what’ll she do?”