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▪ I. sock, n.1|sɒk|
Forms: 1 socc, 4–7 socke, 7– sock (7 socque); 4–6 sokke, 5–6 sok (5 soke). Pl. also sox (see as main entry).
[OE. socc, ad. L. soccus a light low-heeled shoe or slipper: of the same origin are OHG. soch, soc (MHG. soc, socke, G. socke, socken), MLG. socke, MDu. socke, soc (Du. zok, WFris. sok), OIcel. sokkr (Icel. sokkur, Norw. sokk, Sw. sock, Da. sokke). Also F. soque (1611).]
1. a. A covering for the foot, of the nature of a light shoe, slipper, or pump. Now rare or Obs.
c725Corpus Gloss. S 394 Soccus, socc, slebescoh. a1030Rule St. Benet (Logeman) 92 Pedules et caligas, soccas & hosan. c1440Promp. Parv. 400/2 Pynsone, sokke, pedipomita. 1451J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 99 A peyre of old sokkys, or pinsones, whech our maystir had often wered. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Calcearium, a shoe, pinson, or socke. Ibid., Calceo,..to put on shoes, sockes or pinsons. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 621 Not being permitted to weare shooes, but in stead thereof vse sockes made of Rushes. 1663Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustr. 430 A Shooe like a slipper with an heel, which we call a Sock. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 30 Their Stockins are of Cloth the length of the leg, the feet whereof are socks of yellow or red Leather..sewed to the Stockins. 1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 487 They have all very small feet, from inclosing them as tight as possible in socks of morocco leather. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 360 The few [Highlanders] who were so luxurious as to wear rude socks of untanned hide.
†b. [After It. zoccollo.] A sandal, patten, or clog. Obs. rare.
1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3) 131 A large Convent of Religious,..called by the Italians, Soccelanti, because of the wooden Socks they were instead of Shoes. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Socque, a kind of Sandal, or wooden Patin for the Feet, worn by the begging Friers.
2. a. A short stocking covering the foot and usually reaching to the calf of the leg; half-hose; also, = ankle sock.
1327Pol. Songs (Camden) 330 Hii weren sockes in here shon, and felted botes above. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 961 His shon, sokkis, & hosyn, to draw of be ye bolde. 1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 481 Payd fore ij. payr shoes and ij. payr sokkes, xvj.d. 1531Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. (1905) VI. 19 Ane elne small canves to be the King ane pair of sokkis. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 192/2 You must..put on a clean payer of sockes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. i. ii. (1651) 184 One pulled off his socks, another made ready his bed. 1682Dryden Medal Ep. to Whigs, Even Protestant Socks are bought up among you, out of veneration to the name. 1753Hanway Trav. iii. l. (1762) I. 228 They use..socks of wool, which reach over the ankles. 1768Phil. Trans. LX. 122 Two or three pair of woollen socks, which we have on our feet.
attrib. and Comb.1883Daily News 17 Sept. 2/3 In the sock department..there are complaints of want of business. 1899Ibid. 27 Dec. 8/3 His tailoring and his sock-darning.
Phr.c1520Skelton Magnyf. 1362 Trymme at her tayle, or a man can turne a socke. 1538Bale Three Laws iii, They may go turn a sock.
(b) Slang and colloq. phrases: in one's socks, as a condition of measurement of stature; = in one's stockings s.v. stocking n. 5 a (cf. in one's shoes s.v. shoe n. 2 c); to knock the socks off (someone), and varr. (U.S.): to beat thoroughly, to trounce; similarly to rot the socks off; to pull one's socks up: to make an effort, to pull oneself together; to put a sock in it: to stop speaking or making a noise, to shut up; to ‘stop it’; usu. in imp.; old socks (orig. N. Amer.): a familiar form of address.
1835Dickens Sk. Boz (1836) II. 2 He..stood four feet six inches and three-quarters in his socks. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 311 The socks which the women there knit. 1913T. H. S. Escott Anthony Trollope x. 191 Those who knew Anthony Trollope in the flesh saw in him one who, at his prime, had stood some six feet in his socks. 1927in C. J. Finger Frontier Ballads 69 This Floyd stood six feet in his socks and passed for mighty fly. 1977Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 40/3 (Advt.), 11 hands in his socks... Smart, free-moving pony.
1845C. Beecher Let. in M. Rugoff Beechers (1981) xi. 212 ‘Beecher you must put in your best licks today!’ ‘You must knock the socks off those Old School folks!’ And so they stood by to see me fight. 1964J. Porter Dover One vi. 65 This thick, fruity beverage..was guaranteed by one revolting old boozer as being strong enough to rot the socks off you. 1979Arizona Daily Star 22 July D3/1 ‘Trucks have been beating our socks off,’ said..a spokesman for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Chicago. ‘But now we have a chance to get some of the business back.’
1893H. F. McClelland Jack & Beanstalk 31 Pull up your socks! I'll see naught goes wrong with you. 1906Daily Mail 14 Feb. 6/6 The ‘smart set’ have got hold of another neat expression. ‘You must pull your socks up’ is the latest form of saying ‘Never mind’, or ‘Pull yourself together’. 1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xi. 78 Pull your socks up, Ah Chee, an' think of something. 1936M. Kennedy Together & Apart iv. 294 There's hope for you if you pull your socks up. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 11 Nov. 17/5 The dismissal was unfair because Mr. Collier had not been given adequate warning and a chance ‘to pull his socks up’ before dismissal.
1919Athenæum 8 Aug. 729/2 The expression ‘Put a sock in it’, meaning ‘Leave off talking, singing or shouting’. 1930J. B. Priestley Good Companions i. vi. 232 Two or three members of his audience laughed, but a young man in a green cloth cap was very annoyed. ‘Oh, put a sock in it,’ he said to the ripe gentleman, who immediately and very loudly asked him what he meant by it. 1933M. Lowry Ultramarine vi. 243 Aw, put a sock in it. Well, I'm going to sleep, chaps, and if you wake me again, the fellow that does it I'll slip him thirteen inches of saltpetre. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 107 ‘For Christ's sake put a sock in it,’ he had said..‘and tell them I want an ambulance down here.’ 1978A. Price '44 Vintage vi. 69 He..drew his finger across his throat, grinning horribly. ‘Put a sock in it, Taf,’ said Sergeant Purvis sharply.
1925T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy I. ii. iii. 185 Gee, it's good to have a look at you, old socks! 1934H. G. Radcliffe in Passing Show 27 Jan. 5/4 Hey, Morrison, old socks. How's things! 1950R. Moore Candlemas Bay 19 Ninety..pounds, Jebby, old socks.
b. white sock, a white portion on the leg of a horse, extending half-way up to the knee.
1893M. H. Hayes Points of Horse xx. (1897) 222 ‘White stocking’..might be reserved for one that comes up as high as the knee or hock; while that of a ‘white sock’ might be used to signify the marking when it is shorter.
c. colloq. A sock used as a receptacle for storing one's money; hence, a store of money. Cf. stocking n. 2 a.
1930Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves! x. 263 Her name was Maudie and he loved her dearly, but the family would have none of it. They dug down into the sock and paid her off. 1949H. MacLennan Precipice iii. 248 Once we've got enough put away in the sock I'm going to..go back to M.I.T. 1951Cusack & James Come in Spinner 54 He just can't adjust himself to not having the best. And that's what marriage without a sock in the bank would mean. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) x. 95, I opened Café Society as an unknown; I left two years later as a star. But you couldn't tell the difference from what I had in my sock.
d. N.Z. (See quot. 1965.)
1955G. Bowen Wool Away! iii. 45 Many sheepowners do not like socks taken off, as it puts hair in the wool. 1965N.Z. Listener 26 Feb. 15/2 Socks, wool between the knee and the foot. In some sheds and competitions the instruction ‘leave the socks on’ means not to shear this wool, which usually contains a proportion of hair.
3. spec. A light shoe worn by comic actors on the ancient Greek and Roman stage; hence used allusively to denote comedy or the comic muse. sock and buskin, comedy and tragedy, the drama or theatrical profession as a whole.
1597Bp. Hall Sat. i. i. 19 Trumpet,..and socks, and buskins fine, I them bequeath, whose statues [etc.]. 1626Massinger Roman Actor i. i, The Greeks, to whom we owe the first invention Both of the buskined scene and humble sock. 1682Dryden Mac-Fl. 80 Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. 1746Collins The Manners iv, The Comick Sock that binds thy feet! 1783Cowper Valediction 34 To live by buskin, sock, and raree-show. 1809Malkin Gil Blas iii. xi. ⁋1 Gentlemen of the sock and buskin are not on the best possible terms with the church. 1817Byron Beppo xxxi, He was a critic upon operas, too, And knew all niceties of the sock and buskin.
†4. (See quot.) Obs.—0
1611Cotgr., Socque, a socke or sole of durt, or earth, cleauing to the bottome of the foot in a cloggie way, or in a moist & clayie soyle.
5. techn. (See quots.)
1851Mech. Mag. 22 Mar. 239 A method of making the ‘socks’ or uppers of boots. Ibid., The sock is made of knitted material, with an elastic band at top. 1851Catal. Gt. Exhib. 520/1 Varieties of socks for shoes, of cork and gutta percha covered with lamb skin. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Sock,..an inner warm sole for a shoe.
6. attrib. and Comb., as sock foot U.S. = stocking-foot c.; hence sock-footed a.; sock-suspender = suspender 4 b. See also sense 2.
1934Jrnl. Amer. Folk-Lore XLVII. 52 No boots could he find. He was about to..go to his wedding in his sock feet, when a Voice told him to crawl out from under the bed. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. viii. 177 Pull off yo' shoes and set in yo' sock feet. 1981Nordic Skiing Jan. 34/2 Chairback is for the making of memories{ddd}unforgettable skiing, bone-easing hot shower and sauna, a fine dinner, a tumbler of mulled wine, sock-footed by your woodstove.
1912E. C. Bentley Trent's last Case iii. 36 He had on a complete outfit of underclothing, studs in his shirt, sock-suspenders. 1922Wodehouse Jill the Reckless xviii. 268 Give me your share of the show for three dollars in cash and I'll throw in a pair of sock-suspenders and an Ingersoll. 1978S. Wilson Dealer's Move ix. 185 One of his trousers had been dragged up to his knee... He was wearing sock suspenders.
Sense 6 in Dict. becomes 7. Add: 6. Aeronaut. Shortening of wind-sock s.v. wind n.1 32. orig. U.S.
1933Sun (Baltimore) 20 Sept. 7/8 The Department of Commerce aeronautical officials have chosen the Frederick airport as the scene of experiments with a new type wind cone which may replace the conventional ‘sock’ that has guided landing airplanes for years. 1939Florida (Federal Writers' Project) III. 461 Red and white boundary stripes and a yellow ‘sock’ bellying in the wind mark the Holopaw Emergency Landing Field. 1954W. A. Heflin U. S. Air Force Dict. 477/1 Sock, n., short for ‘windsock’. 1958‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose viii. 297, I took my attention from the runway and looked at the sock properly.
▸ sock puppet n. orig. U.S. a simple puppet made from a sock that is fitted over and moved by the hand and fingers; (also fig.) a person whose actions are controlled by another; a minion.
1959Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 24 Sept. 12 (advt.) Shari Lewis *Sock Puppet Reg. $1.39. 1969N.Y. Times Mag. 6 July 17/2 Merle B. Karnes of the University of Illinois trained the mothers of 15 disadvantaged 3-year-olds to make inexpensive educational materials—sock puppets, lotto and matching games. 1997E. Hand Glimmering iii. xiv. 289 There were boxes of strange hand-made toys, cars and boats and rocket ships carved from Popsicle sticks, sock puppets that moved Jack to tears. 2000U.S. News & World Rep. 27 Mar. 22/1 Jennifer Brand, a 24-year-old student who backed President Clinton in 1996, called Gore ‘a sock puppet’ and Bush ‘a wimp’.
▪ II. sock, n.2 north. and Sc.|sɒk|
Forms: 5 sokk(e, 5–6 sok, 5–7 soke; 6 sucke, socke, 7– sock.
[a. OF. soc (12th cent.; so mod.F.), commonly regarded as of Celtic origin.]
1. A ploughshare.
1404Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 398, ij aratra cum ij sokkis. 1405–6Ibid. 222 Pro j sok et ploghschoue. 1483Cath. Angl. 348/2 A Sokk of a plughe,..vomer vel vomis. 1513Douglas æneid vii. xi. 79 Al instrumentis of pleuch graith,..As culturis, sokis, and the sovmis gret. 1559Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees, 1835) I. 170 A kowter, a soke. 1570Levins Manip. 185/1 Ye Sucke of a plow. 1691Ray N.C. Words (ed. 2), A Sock or Plough-sock, a Plough-share. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. ii. i, When such leaves..are..turned over with the sock, and mixed with the lower ground. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. (ed. 2) 236 The plough thus set right by the way of fitting on the sock, will be heavy to draw. 1814Scott Diary 6 August in Lockhart, An old-fashioned Zetland plough..had..a coulter, but no sock. 1844H. Stephens Book Farm I. 411 The share or sock..is fitted upon a prolongation of the sole-bar of the body-frame. 1890Proc. Soc. Antiquaries 9 Jan. 30 A lad, whilst ploughing,..found the bronze bell wedged on to the ‘sock’ of the plough.
b. attrib., as sock-guard, sock-iron, sock-plate.
1371Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 7 Et in..j sokeiren, j pari belowes,..emptis. 1844H. Stephens Book Farm I. 415 The share is always formed from a plate forged for the express purpose at the iron-mills, and known in the trade by the term sock-plate. 1893in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v, These were wood plews,..an' hed a sock-guard to prevent t' sock comin' off.
2. sock and scythe, used to denote ploughing and mowing. Also attrib. with land.
1597Skene De Verb. Sign. M vj b, Hvsbandland. conteinis commonlie 6. aikers of sok & syith lande: That is of sik land as may be tilled by ane pleuch, or may be mawed with ane syith. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 26, I was fit for baith sock and sythe. Ibid. 412 At sock or scythe they hae nae match.
▪ III. sock, n.3 Now dial.
Also 1 soc, 4 sok.
[OE. soc (also ᵹesoc), f. the weak grade of súcan to suck, = MDu. soc, zoc suck (Kilian sock, WFris. sok, the suck of water in the wake of a ship).]
†1. Suck (given to a child). Obs.
c1000ælfric Gen. xxi. 8 On þone dæᵹ þe man þæt cild fram soce Sarra ateah. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 391 Sesez childer of her sok. 1382Wyclif Isaiah xi. 8 [The child] that shal be taken awei fro sok, or wenyd.
2. dial. Wet or moisture collecting in, or percolating through, soil. (Cf. soak n. 2 b.)
1799[A. Young] Agric. Lincoln. 15 The sock or soak among the silt is sometimes brackish. c1818Britton Lincolnshire 560 Entering the fens, it leaves a portion of its waters and sludge or sock. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Sock, the superficial moisture of land not properly drained off. 1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. ii. 293 Throughout all the marshes and many of the fens are found those subterranean currents called the soak or sock. Ibid. 305 A sock-dyke or drain.
b. The drainage of a dunghill; liquid manure.
1790W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. Midl. II. 442 Sock, the drainage of a farm yard: hence Sock-pit, the receptacle of such drainage. 1896in Eng. Dial. Dict., There was no sock above the outlet.
▪ IV. sock, n.4 slang.|sɒk|
[Cf. sock v.2]
1. A blow; a beating. Chiefly in phr. to give (one) sock(s, to give a sound thrashing or beating. Also in phr. a sock in the eye (also fig.).
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v. Tip, Tip the Culls a Sock, for they are sawcy, Knock down the Men for resisting. 1864Slang Dict. 240 ‘Give him Sock,’ i.e. thrash him well. 1897Westm. Gaz. 30 Nov. 2/2 Hope we give these brutes socks; they are plugging us all round now. 1972Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin vi. 87 He's asked you to lunch in the hope of talking you into giving me the sock in the eye on which his heart is set. 1974― Aunts aren't Gentlemen xiv. 119, I knew that her name would be mud. I still wasn't sure she couldn't even be jugged, and what a sock in the eye that would give Uncle Tom's digestion. 1979Woman & Home June 154/2 The return to tradition; a sock in the eye for the mechanisation that was creating unemployment.
2. U.S. slang. A strong impact, emphasis, a ‘kick’.
1936Swing Music Mar. 10/1, I used to get a terrific sock out of Rappolo riding high on his clarinet. 1937B. Goodman This Thing called Swing 9 Sock, emphasis, usually referring to the last chorus. 1950Audio Engin. Sept. 14/3 More low middles increase the Punch until the program is solid, and has sock. 1972Publishers' Weekly 21 Aug. 15/1 (Advt.), Here's solid history with the sock of unforgettable fiction. 1979Arizona Daily Star 22 July C3/2, I figure we have enough speed and sock in our lineup to score runs.
3. attrib. and Comb., as sock chorus Jazz (see quot. 1936); sock cymbal Jazz = high hat, high-hat 3; also attrib.
1936Delineator Nov. 49/2 Sock chorus, last chorus of an arrangement. 1937Metronome Mar. 31/1 The full sock chorus..hits you between the eyes. 1956E. Hunter Second Ending iv. 69 They rode into the sock chorus like a storm cloud of marauders.
1936Sock cymbal [see off-beat a. 1]. 1949L. Feather Inside Be-bop iii. 80 Kenny originally played the old Jo Jones sock cymbal style. 1972Jazz & Blues Sept. 7/3 You wouldn't play your sock cymbal the same as your ride cymbal.
▪ V. sock, n.5 Eton slang.
[Of obscure origin.]
Eatables of various kinds, especially dainties.
1825C. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 39 Then, after holidays, Tom..gives sock so graciously, that he is the very life of dame ―'s party. 1866Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 310 Sellers of ‘sock’, that is, eatables,—sweet mixtures generally. 1881in Pascoe Every-day Life, etc. 25 The consumption of ‘sock’ too in school was considerable.
attrib.1866Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 194 There's my old sock-shop.
▪ VI. sock, n.6
[? ellipt. for sock-lamb.]
A pet child or young animal.
1837Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Spectre of Tappington (1905) 24 Master Neddy is ‘grandpapa's darling’, and Mary Anne mamma's particular ‘Sock’. 1869N. & Q. 4th Ser. III. 500 You know you are a little sock!
▪ VII. sock, n.7 slang.
[Of obscure origin: the senses have prob. no connexion with each other.]
†1. ? A small coin. (Cf. rag n.1 2 c.) Obs.—1
1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia i. i, I went up to the Gaming Ordinary and lost all my Ready; they left me not a rag or sock.
†2. A pocket. Obs.
a1700in B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew.
3. Credit, ‘tick’.
1874Slang Dict. 301 He gets goods on sock, while I pay ready.
▪ VIII. sock, n.8 rare—1.
Abbrev. of socket n.
1803H. K. White Gondoline lxv, The eyes were starting from their socks, The mouth it ghastly grinn'd.
▪ IX. † sock, v.1 Obs.
[Of obscure origin.]
trans. To sew (a corpse) in or into a shroud. Also with up.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. ii. (1886) 33 They which socke the corps. Ibid. vi. vii. 99 Needels wherewith dead bodies are sowne or sockt into their sheetes. a1627Middleton Witch i. ii, The same needles..That sews and socks up dead men in their sheets. 1643Sussex Arch. Coll. XX. 105 Paid more for a sheet to socke her in, 2s. 8½d., and for laying her forthe and socking of her, 2s. 2½d.
Hence † socking-sheet, a winding-sheet.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 60 It was his custom..every night to hang his shroud and socking or burial-sheet at his beds feet.
▪ X. sock, v.2 slang.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. trans.
a. (a) To beat, strike hard, hit. (b) fig. (U.S.) To give a hard blow to; esp. to take large sums of money from (someone).
(a)a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Sock, to Beat... I'll Sock ye, I'll Drub ye tightly. 1870R. B. Mansfield School-Life at Winchester College 234 Sock, to hit hard at Cricket. 1890Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, Oonts 15 We socks 'im with a stretcher-pole. 1896N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 30 ‘Sock 'em, Blackie!’ said W. Smith. ‘Sock the swine!’ echoed his brother. 1916[see gas n.2]. 1926Variety 29 Dec. 5/3 No craving for expression motivated me when I hung up the finger glove and sliding pads in favor of socking a typewriter. 1933G. B. Shaw Political Madhouse in America 21 Why do you applaud these screen heroes who, when they are not kissing the heroine, are socking jaws? It is a criminal offence to sock a citizen in the jaw. 1982B. Chatwin On Black Hill xiv. 67 The porter had socked him on the jaw, and he now lay, face down on the paving.
(b)1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xvi. 248 Find out how much they gonna sock ya for the lessons. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run! x. 191 When a moving picture is right, it socks the eye and the ear and the solar plexus. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 1/2 Cost rises are so precipitate..that one Congressman..suggested ‘we're being socked everywhere in foreign countries.’ 1973J. Cleary Ransom ii. 44, I don't know what sort of demands they're making. If they're socking the Mayor..the price is gonna be high—he's a very rich man. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a.8/1 The township socked the company with a building permit violation.
b. U.S. (See quot.)
1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 320 To Sock, to press by a hard blow a man's hat over his head and face. Used in Rhode Island.
c. To drive or thrust in or in(to) something. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1843Spirit of Times 15 July 234/1 About one hundred yards from home, Spicer pulled Beppo out, and ‘socked in’ his spurs. 1845T. J. Green Texian Exped. xvii. 321 The corporal ‘socked’ it [sc. a shoe-maker's awl] in the thick of his back. 1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ii. 37 The very next day they put me in jail—socked me right in with them two Hodges. 1892Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, Cells 30 'Strewth, but I socked it them hard! 1898Westm. Gaz. 19 Nov. 2/1, I wouldn't have had those fangs socked into me for all the gold mines in these United States.
(b) In phrases. to sock it to (one): to strike, deal a blow to (that person); to ‘give it’ to (one). Hence fig.; freq. in imp., as catch-phrase sock it to me (them, etc.)!, used to express encouragement, sexual invitation, etc. Also in n. phr. sock-it-to-me, a loud and violent style of music; a piece of such music. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1877Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 623 Two loafers are fighting; one of the crowd cries out, ‘Sock it to him.’ 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliii. 438 A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can..pile it on and sock it to him. 1889― Connecticut Yankee xxxiii. 422 ‘Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, we pay only eight cents.’ I prepared, now, to sock it to him. I said: ‘Look here.., what's become of your high wages you were bragging so about, a few minutes ago?’—and I looked around on the company with placid satisfaction. 1901Cent. Mag. May 124 We shall sock it to them, we shall indeed. 1927O. W. Holmes in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) II. 975, I have heard an English judge sock it to the jury in a murder case. 1963B. J. Chute Shift to Right 153 There was a shriek from the panting Trenton stands: ‘Yea, Rusty. Sock it to 'em.’ 1968Tel. (Brisbane) 15 June 2/3 ‘Sock it to me’ is a catch-phrase which is sweeping America... It's all due to Judy Carne,..who cheekily used the phrase in a weekly comedy show called ‘Laugh In’. 1969R. Lowell Notebook 137 The little girl's bedroom, perfect with posters: ‘Do not enter,’ and ‘Sock it to me, Baby.’ 1969Times 19 July 9/6 The black American phrase ‘sock it to me’ (with an obscene connotation). 1969Times 29 July 1/3 If President Nixon is going to ‘sock it’ to anyone, the likeliest recipient is the South Vietnamese government. 1970S. Sheldon Naked Face (1971) ii. 16 She reached between his legs and stroked him, whispering, ‘Go, baby. Sock it to me.’ 1970Melody Maker 11 July 19/7 It's good to hear Pickett getting away from the sock-it-to-me and into gentler songs. 1971West Indian World 12 Nov. 14/3 Back to the sock-it-to-me's with Jesse James's ‘Don't Nobody Want to Get Married’..which storms breathlessly along complete with hard-hitting bass and wow-wow guitars. 1977New Yorker 2 May 34/2, I can't afford a second divorce. Daphne would really sock it to me. 1978Railway Age 25 Dec. 25/2 Does all this boil down to some kind of accounting legerdemain that, in the end, will be socking it to the taxpayers?
d. Jazz. To perform (music) in a swinging manner. Freq. in phr. to sock it (out).
1927Melody Maker July 697 Sock out your last chorus on that, my friends. 1933[see get v. 70 l]. 1935Vanity Fair XLV. 71/3 Hot artists or bands that can put across their licks successfully are ‘senders’;..they can ‘sock it’. 1955Shapiro & Hentoff Hear me talkin' to Ya vii. 79 ‘Blow it, kid. Sock it out,’ Tig and Jones kept shouting, until I finally loosened up and did tricks with that slide that I probably never did before or since. 1968Radio Times 28 Nov. 47/1 He's spent his evenings singing in pubs..‘socking’ out the rhythm and blues. 1976New Yorker 12 Jan. 37 (caption) From the top—‘Watermelon Man’. Let's sock it out and give Mrs. Ritterhouse a chance to really cook.
2. intr. To strike out, deliver blows; to pitch into one.
1856Lyrics in War Time, Orphan's Song, I scolded and I socked, But it minded not a whit. 1864Slang Dict. 240 ‘Sock into him,’ i.e. give him a good drubbing.
Hence ˈsocking vbl. n.
1978N.Y. Times 30 Mar. d 17/2 Harrelson played no part in all the socking because the Mets stopped scoring after four innings and the Phillies after five, and he didn't get into the game until the seventh.
▪ XI. sock, v.3 Eton slang.
[f. sock n.5]
a. trans. To treat (one) to sock; to present or give (something) to one.
b. intr. To buy or consume sock.
1842Eton Bureau 162 Sock means prog, but when you sock a boy anything, he eats it, and you pay for it... I was asked by A― to sock him a verse the other day, and I had to sock him a construe of his lesson too. 1850N. & Q. 1st Ser. II. 44/2 That a schoolfellow would ‘sock him’, i.e. treat him to sock at the pastry cooks. 1883J. Brinsley-Richards Seven Years Eton v. 38 We Eton fellows, great and small, ‘socked’ prodigiously. 1889Macm. Mag. Nov. 65 My governor socked me a book.
▪ XII. sock, v.4 s.w. dial.
[Imitative.]
intr. To sigh.
1863Barnes Dorset Gl., Sock, to sigh with a loudish sound. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. II. xviii. 243 She pined and pined, and socked and sighed.
▪ XIII. sock, v.5
[f. sock n.1 2.]
1. trans. To provide with socks; to put socks on (one).
1897Gunter Ballyho Bey xx. 231 How beautifully Irene has socked my feet! 1902Barrie Little White Bird xi. 107 She had trouble in socking him every morning.
2. colloq. (orig. U.S.). To put (money) aside as savings. Also with away.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §376/5 Save{ddd}sock one's money away. 1951Cusack & James Come in Spinner 297, I bet he's socked a pretty packet away. 1962E. Lucia Klondike Kate iii. 97 Instead of gambling a fortune away at the wheels..[Kitty] was wisely socking it into the bank. 1963C. D. Simak They walked like Men ix. 53 They've been busy for the last week scooping it in. People come in loaded and are socking it away. 1971Maclean's Mag. Sept. 11/2 Now they seem to believe that a buck earned is a buck to be socked away. 1978R. Doliner On the Edge v. 84 He's got to have money... How much you figure he socked away?
3. N. Amer. Of fog, cloud, etc.: to close in, to enshroud.
1950Webster Add. Sock in. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §761/2 Socked in, ceiling zero. 1955Sci. News Let. 26 Feb. 136 Man-made ice-fog that ‘socks in’ Arctic airfields can now be licked by a new device developed by the Armour Research Foundation, Chicago. 1969Daily Tel. 21 May 1/6 All of Europe, the Soviet Union,..are socked in cloud cover. 1975High Times Dec. 70/3 Pilots..are often completely socked in by fog and haze. 1976C. Egleton State Visit iii. 25 Wednesday is always a busy day... As long as the airfield isn't socked in. |