| 释义 |
socking, adv. and ppl. a. slang.|ˈsɒkɪŋ|
[? f. sock v.2: see also B below.]
A. adv. As an intensive, esp. qualifying big or great: very.
1896Dialect Notes I. 425 That was a socking big fish. 1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 67 A socking great Wellington has just gate-crashed the range. 1951J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge iii. iii. 548 A teeny drink before lunch, and it turned out to be a socking great double gin and Dubonnet. 1958M. Dickens Man Overboard viii. 122 A socking great button-hole. 1976D. Francis In Frame iv. 65 A brooch I had..with a socking big diamond in the middle.
B. ppl. a. A euphemistic substitute for fucking ppl. a.
1941Penguin New Writing X. 114 That socking kid's playing a game with me. 1945S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xiv. 257 Socker and socking, as synonyms for an old English vulgarism widely current in this country, are recent inventions. |