sockn.¹

Brit.

/sɒk/, U.S.

/sɑk/

Forms: Old English socc, Middle English–1600s socke, 1600s– sock (1600s socque); Middle English–1500s sokke, Middle English–1500s sok (Middle English soke). Plural also sox (see as main entry).

Etymology: Old English socc, < Latin soccus a light low-heeled shoe or slipper: of the same origin are Old High German soch, soc (Middle High German soc, socke, German socke, socken), Middle Low German socke, Middle Dutch socke, soc (Dutch zok, West Frisian sok), Old Icelandic sokkr (Icelandic sokkur, Norwegian sokk, Swedish sock, Danish sokke). Also French soque (1611).

a. A covering for the foot, of the nature of a light shoe, slipper, or pump. Now rare or Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > light shoe or slipper

sockc725

pinson1388

slipper?1478

pantan1489

pump1555

slip-shoe1555

pinsnet1583

pump shoe1689

baff1914

baffie1917

c725 Corpus Gloss. S 394 Soccus, socc, slebescoh.

a1030 Rule St. Benet (Logeman) 92 Pedules et caligas, soccas & hosan.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 400/2 Pynsone, sokke, pedipomita.

1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 99 A peyre of old sokkys, or pinsones, whech our maystir had often wered.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Calcearium, a shoe, pinson, or socke.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Calceo,..to put on shoes, sockes or pinsons.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 621 Not being permitted to weare shooes, but in stead thereof vse sockes made of Rushes.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus 430 A Shooe like a slipper with an heel, which we call a Sock.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant 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.

1799 Monthly Rev. 30 487 They have all very small feet, from inclosing them as tight as possible in socks of morocco leather.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 360 The few [Highlanders] who were so luxurious as to wear rude socks of untanned hide.

†b. [After Italian zoccollo.] A sandal, patten, or clog. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific types of sole > wooden sole

clog1416

galoshc1440

sock1691

sabot1840

geta1876

bakya1916

1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 131 A large Convent of Religious,..called by the Italians, Soccelanti, because of the wooden Socks they were instead of Shoes.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Socque, a kind of Sandal, or wooden Patin for the Feet, worn by the begging Friers.

(a) A short stocking covering the foot and usually reaching to the calf of the leg; half-hose; also, = ankle sock n. at ankle n. Compounds 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > types of > short stocking or sock

vamp?c1225

sock1327

vampethc1424

vampeyc1425

short-hose1530

slip-stocking1673

almond1932

1327 Pol. Songs (Camden) 330 Hii weren sockes in here shon, and felted botes above.

c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 961 His shon, sokkis, & hosyn, to draw of be ye bolde.

1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 481 Payd fore ij. payr shoes and ij. payr sokkes, xvj.d.

1531 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 19 Ane elne small canves to be the King ane pair of sokkis.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 192/2 You must..put on a clean payer of sockes.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. i. ii. 236 One pulled of his socks, another made ready his bed.

1682 J. Dryden Medall Epist. Whigs sig. a1 Even Protestant Socks are bought up among you, out of veneration to the name.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. l. 332 They use..socks of wool, which reach over the ankles.

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 122 Two or three pair of woollen socks, which we have on our feet.

(b) Slang and colloquial phrases: to turn a sock; in one's socks, as a condition of measurement of stature; = to stand in one's stockings at stocking n.² 5a (cf. in one's shoes at shoe n. 2c); to knock the socks off (someone), and variants (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’; usually in imperative; old socks (originally North American): a familiar form of address.

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the world > life > the body > bodily height > [adverb] > as condition of measurement of height

in one's socksa1529

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make effort to recover oneself

to pull, shake oneself togethera1400

to pull one's socks upa1529

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking

to make up one's mouthc1175

to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175

blina1300

dumba1300

leavea1375

to put a sock in ita1529

hush1548

silence1551

stay1551

stow1567

stop1579

to save one's breath (also wind)1605

tace1697

stubble it!1699

shut your trap!1796

to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808

stubble your whids!1830

to shut up1840

to dry up1853

pawl1867

subside1872

to pipe down1876

to shut (one's) head, face1876

shurrup1893

to shut off1896

clam1916

dry1934

shtum1958

to oyster up1973

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] > not utter

to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175

to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275

peacec1395

muffa1500

to put a sock in ita1529

whista1547

to say not muff1652

to hold one's whisht1786

to shut (one's) pan1799

to shut up1840

to hold one's whistc1874

to shut (one's) head, face1876

to wrap up1943

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly

threshc1384

to knock the socks offa1529

thump1597

thrash1609

thwacka1616

capot1649

to beat to snuff1819

to knock into a cocked hat1830

to —— (the) hell out of1833

sledgehammer1834

rout1835

whop1836

skin1838

whip-saw1842

to knock (the) spots off1850

to make mincemeat of1853

to mop (up) the floor with1875

to beat pointless1877

to lick into fits1879

to take apart1880

to knock out1883

wax1884

contund1885

to give (a person) fits1885

to wipe the floor with1887

flatten1892

to knock (someone) for six1902

slaughter1903

slather1910

to hit for six1937

hammer1948

whomp1952

bulldozer1954

zilch1957

shred1966

tank1973

slam-dunk1975

beast1977

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiii Trymme at her tayle or a man can turne a socke.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Cviij^v They maye go turne a socke.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 2 He..stood four feet six inches and three-quarters in his socks.1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 311 The socks which the women there knit.1913 T. 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.1927 in C. J. Finger Frontier Ballads 69 This Floyd stood six feet in his socks and passed for mighty fly.1977 Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 40/3 (advt.) 11 hands in his socks... Smart, free-moving pony.1845 C. 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.1964 J. 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.1979 Arizona 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.’1893 H. F. McLelland Jack & Beanstalk 31 Pull up your socks! I'll see naught goes wrong with you.1906 Daily 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.1924 H. A. Vachell Quinney's Adventures 269 Metaphorically an Irish-American ‘pulled up his socks’.1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart iv. 294 There's hope for you if you pull your socks up.1976 Southern Evening 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.1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 729/2 The expression ‘Put a sock in it’, meaning ‘Leave off talking, singing or shouting’.1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words s.v. ‘Shut up, put a sock into it.’1930 J. 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.1932 R. C. Ashby Plot against Widow xxi. 172 ‘Oh, put a sock in it!’ she invited him scornfully.1933 M. 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.’1978 A. Price '44 Vintage vi. 69 He..drew his finger across his throat, grinning horribly. ‘Put a sock in it, Taf,’ said Sergeant Purvis sharply.1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. iii. 185 Gee, it's good to have a look at you, old socks!1934 H. G. Radcliffe in Passing Show 27 Jan. 5/4 Hey, Morrison, old socks. How's things!1950 R. 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.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > mark or streak > white mark or patch

snip1562

white sock1893

1893 M. H. Hayes Points of Horse (1897) xx. 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. colloquial. A sock used as a receptacle for storing one's money; hence, a store of money. Cf. stocking n.² 2a.

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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun] > stocking used as

hoggerc1725

moggan1842

stocking1873

sock1930

1930 P. G. Wodehouse 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.

1949 H. MacLennan Precipice iii. 248 Once we've got enough put away in the sock I'm going to..go back to M.I.T.

1951 D. Cusack & F. 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.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues x. 108 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. New Zealand. (See quot. 1965.)

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1955 G. Bowen Wool Away! iii. 45 Many sheepowners do not like socks taken off, as it puts hair in the wool.

1965 N.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.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun]

sock and buskin1597

scene1616

drama1661

theatre1668

dramatics1684

dramaturgy1801

proscenium1812

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > costume > ancient Greek or Roman

buskin1570

sock1597

mask1600

cothurn1606

cothurno1611

cothurnal1626

cothurnus1728

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > light shoe or slipper > other

pantofle1494

mule1562

pantap1570

scarpinea1586

sock1597

sandal1794

powdering slipper1800

carpet slipper1851

Romeo slipper1889

Romeo1892

slipperslapper1922

Grecian slipper1926

Slipperette1931

ballerina1947

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. i. 2 Trumpet,..and socks, and buskins fine, I them bequeath.

1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor i. i. sig. B The Greekes (to whom we owe the first inuention Both of the buskind scæne and humble socke [printed stocke; 1722 Sock]).

1682 J. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 7 Great Fletcher never treads in Buskins here, Nor greater Johnson dares in Socks appear.

1747 W. Collins Odes 43 The comic Sock that binds thy Feet.

1783 W. Cowper Valediction 34 To live by buskin, sock, and raree-show.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. xi. 445 Gentlemen of the sock and buskin are not on the best possible terms with the church.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxx. 16 He was a critic upon operas, too, And knew all niceties of the sock and buskin.

†4. (See quot. 1611) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > clod > other clods

clota1398

sock1611

iron mould1706

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues 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. technical. (See quots.)

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > upper > types of

top1629

boot-top1771

sock1851

boot-uppera1877

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > other

speckc1440

under-leather1569

rand1598

tongue1598

ruffle1600

underlay1612

tap1688

jump1712

bottom1768

boot-garter1824

yarking1825

range1840

counter1841

insole1851

sock1851

galosh1853

heel plate1862

lift1862

foxing1865

spring1885

saddle1930

1851 Mechanics' Mag. 22 Mar. 239 A method of making the ‘socks’ or uppers of boots.

1851 Mechanics' Mag. 22 Mar. 239 The sock is made of knitted material, with an elastic band at top.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 520/1 Varieties of socks for shoes, of cork and gutta percha covered with lamb skin.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sock,..an inner warm sole for a shoe.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.

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1883 Daily News 17 Sept. 2/3 In the sock department..there are complaints of want of business.

1899 Daily News 27 Dec. 8/3 His tailoring and his sock-darning.

C2.

sock foot n. U.S. = stocking-foot n. 3.

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1934 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 47 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.

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. viii. 177 Pull off yo' shoes and set in yo' sock feet.

sock-footed adj.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings

stockinged1609

(in, on) one's stocking feet1805

stockinged1862

stocking-footed1926

stocking-feeted1973

sock-footed1981

1981 Nordic Skiing Jan. 34/2 Chairback is for the making of memories…unforgettable skiing, bone-easing hot shower and sauna, a fine dinner, a tumbler of mulled wine, sock-footed by your woodstove.

sock-suspender n. = suspender n. 4b. See also sense 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > for holding up > suspender

suspender1878

sock-suspender1912

1912 E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case iii. 36 He had on a complete outfit of underclothing, studs in his shirt, sock-suspenders.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xiii An earthy brute who wore sock-suspenders.

1920 P. G. Wodehouse Jill the Reckless xviii. 330 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.

1978 S. Wilson Dealer's Move ix. 185 One of his trousers had been dragged up to his knee... He was wearing sock suspenders.

Draft additions 1993

Aeronautics. Shortening of wind sock n. at wind n.¹ Compounds 2. Originally U.S.

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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > wind sock

wind cone1918

wind sleeve1920

wind sock1929

sock1933

1933 Sun (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.

1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 461 Red and white boundary stripes and a yellow ‘sock’ bellying in the wind mark the Holopaw Emergency Landing Field.

1956 W. 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.

Draft additions June 2004

sock puppet n. originally U.S. a simple puppet made from a sock that is fitted over and moved by the hand and fingers; (also figurative) a person whose actions are controlled by another; a minion.

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1959 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 24 Sept. 12 (advt.) Shari Lewis Sock Puppet Reg. $1.39.

1969 N.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.

1997 E. 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.

2000 U.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’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sockn.²

Brit.

/sɒk/, U.S.

/sɑk/, Scottish English

/sɔk/

Forms: Middle English sokk(e, Middle English–1500s sok, Middle English–1600s soke; 1500s sucke, socke, 1600s– sock.

Etymology: < Old French soc (12th cent.; so modern French), commonly regarded as of Celtic origin.

northern and Scottish.

a. A ploughshare.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > ploughshare

shareOE

ploughsharea1387

sock1404

sough?a1475

suck1499

soke1661

plough point1837

1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 398 2 aratra cum 2 sokkis.

1405–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 222 Pro 1 sok et ploghschoue.

1483 Cath. Angl. 348/2 A Sokk of a plughe,..vomer vel vomis.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xi. 79 Al instrumentis of pleuch graith,..As culturis, sokis, and the sovmis gret.

1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 170 A kowter, a soke, a muk fowe, a graype, 2 yerne forks.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piii/1 Y^e Sucke of a plow.

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) A Sock or Plough-sock, a Plough-share.

1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry ii. i When such leaves..are..turned over with the sock, and mixed with the lower ground.

1765 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xi. 236 The plough thus set right by the way of fitting on the sock, will be heavy to draw.

1814 W. Scott Diary 6 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 153 An old-fashioned Zetland plough..had..a coulter, but no sock.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 411 The share or sock..is fitted upon a prolongation of the sole-bar of the body-frame.

1890 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries 9 Jan. 30 A lad, whilst ploughing,..found the bronze bell wedged on to the ‘sock’ of the plough.

b. attributive, as sock-guard, sock-iron, sock-plate.

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1371 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 7 Et in..j sokeiren, j pari belowes,..emptis.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of 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.

1893 in 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 attributive with land.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughing and mowing

sock and scythe1597

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione 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.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 26 I was fit for baith sock and sythe.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 412 At sock or scythe they hae nae match.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sockn.³

Forms: Also Old English soc, Middle English sok.

Etymology: Old English soc (also gesoc), < the weak grade of súcan to suck, = Middle Dutch soc, zoc suck (Kilian sock, West Frisian sok, the suck of water in the wake of a ship).

Now dialect.

†1. Suck (given to a child). Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant

sockc1000

suck13..

nourishingc1325

nursing?1533

lactation1668

suckling1842

breastfeeding1858

c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxi. 8 On þone dæg þe man þæt cild fram soce Sarra ateah.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xi. 8 [The child] that shal be taken awei fro sok, or wenyd.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 391 Sesez childer of her sok.

a. dialect. Wet or moisture collecting in, or percolating through, soil. (Cf. soak n. 2b.)

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the world > the earth > water > [noun] > water in or percolating through soil

sock1799

ground-sype1839

soil water1892

soil solution1901

pore water1927

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 15 The sock or soak among the silt is sometimes brackish.

c1818 J. Britton Lincs. 560 Entering the fens, it leaves a portion of its waters and sludge or sock.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Sock, the superficial moisture of land not properly drained off.

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 293 Throughout all the marshes and many of the fens are found those subterranean currents called the soak or sock.

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 305 A sock-dyke or drain.

b. The drainage of a dunghill; liquid manure.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung

dungOE

muckc1268

dunging?1440

fimea1475

fulyiec1480

tath1492

soil1607

street soil1607

dung-water1608

soiling1610

mucking1611

short dung, manure, muck1618

folding1626

muck water1626

stable manure1629

long dung1658

spit-dunga1671

stercoration1694

street dirt1694

horse-litter1721

pot-dunga1722

sock1790

street manure1793

police manure1825

fold-manure1829

slurry1965

1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 442 Sock, the drainage of a farm yard: hence sock-pit, the receptacle of such drainage.

1896 in Eng. Dial. Dict. There was no sock above the outlet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

sockn.⁴

Brit.

/sɒk/, U.S.

/sɑk/

Etymology: Compare sock v.²

slang.

1. A blow; a beating. Chiefly in to give (one) sock(s), to give a sound thrashing or beating. Also in a sock in the eye (also figurative).

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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (intransitive)] > specifically a person

to lay ona1225

to dust a person's jacket1630

to brush one's coat for him1665

to give (one) sock(s)1699

pepper1829

lam1875

beast1990

the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person

buffet?c1225

flatc1320

boxc1330

rapc1330

plaguea1382

puncha1450

buffc1475

jowl?1516

beff1768

funk1790

fib1814

cob1828

one1876

biff1889

clump1889

one in the eye1891

conk1898

fourpenny one1936

a sock in the eye1972

kennedy-

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Tip Tip the Culls a Sock, for they are sawcy, Knock down the Men for resisting.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 240 ‘Give him Sock,’ i.e. thrash him well.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 30 Nov. 2/2 Hope we give these brutes socks; they are plugging us all round now.

1972 P. G. Wodehouse 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 P. G. Wodehouse 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.

1979 Woman & 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’.

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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > [noun] > strong

sensation1807

sock1936

zap1968

1936 Swing Music Mar. 10/1 I used to get a terrific sock out of Rappolo riding high on his clarinet.

1937 B. Goodman This Thing called Swing 9 Sock, emphasis, usually referring to the last chorus.

1950 Audio Engin. Sept. 14/3 More low middles increase the Punch until the program is solid, and has sock.

1972 Publishers Weekly 21 Aug. 15/1 (advt.) Here's solid history with the sock of unforgettable fiction.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 22 July C3/2 I figure we have enough speed and sock in our lineup to score runs.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

sock chorus n. Jazz (see quot. 1936).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz

jazz1918

break1926

chorus1926

stop time1929

tag1929

lick1932

riff1933

ride1935

release1936

sock chorus1936

rideout1939

screamer1940

stop chords1941

chase1942

stop chorus1942

mop1945

1936 Delineator Nov. 49/2 Sock chorus, last chorus of an arrangement.

1937 Metronome Mar. 31/1 The full sock chorus..hits you between the eyes.

1956 E. Hunter Second Ending iv. 69 They rode into the sock chorus like a storm cloud of marauders.

sock cymbal n. Jazz = high hat n. 3; also attributive.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > cymbal

cymbalc825

chimea1300

chime-bellc1300

basinsa1350

target1696

zill1754

cymbalon1824

finger cymbal1845

crash cymbal1927

choke-cymbal1934

sock cymbal1936

sizzle cymbal1944

top cymbal1948

ride1956

splash cymbal1961

1936 Metronome Feb. 61/2 Off beat cymbal, sock cymbal.

1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop iii. 80 Kenny originally played the old Jo Jones sock cymbal style.

1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 7/3 You wouldn't play your sock cymbal the same as your ride cymbal.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sockn.⁵

Etymology: Of obscure origin.

Eton College slang.

Eatables of various kinds, especially dainties.

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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > delicacy or titbit

daintethc1290

daintyc1300

morselc1390

confection1393

delicec1405

delicacya1425

delicatea1475

friandise1484

deliciositiesa1500

daintive1526

junket1538

knack1548

daintrel1575

cate1578

pulpament1600

gaudy1622

regalo1622

daint1633

titbita1641

scitament1656

regale1673

knick-knack1682

nicety1704

bonne bouche1721

diablotin1770

sunket1788

regalement1795

confiture1802

bon-bon1821

sock1825

delicatessen1853

good things1861

tiddlywinks1893

1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 39 Then, after holidays, Tom..gives sock so graciously, that he is the very life of dame ——'s party.

1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 310 Sellers of ‘sock’, that is, eatables,—sweet mixtures generally.

1881 in Pascoe Every-day Life, etc. 25 The consumption of ‘sock’ too in school was considerable.

attributive.1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 194 There's my old sock-shop.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

sockn.⁶

Etymology: ? elliptical for sock-lamb n.

A pet child or young animal.

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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > pet

pet1539

peat1566

companion1608

sock1840

dumb friend1870

the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > of or to a child

chickc1330

dillydowna1500

dilling1584

dotey1663

cherub1680

dilli-darling1693

dilli-minion1693

chickabiddy?1775

chicken1809

dote1809

chick-a-diddle1826

sock-lamb1838

sock1840

childie1848

chickadee1860

doy1862

diddums1893

pumpkin1900

poopsie1937

bubele1959

1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 41 Master Neddy is ‘grandpapa's darling’, and Mary Anne mamma's particular ‘Sock’.

1869 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 500 You know you are a little sock!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

sockn.⁷

Etymology: Of obscure origin: the senses have probably no connection with each other.

slang.

†1. ? A small coin. (Cf. rag n.² 6c) Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively > a small coin

orkyn1542

liarda1549

solda1549

scute1594

orkey1648

sock1688

styca1705

dump1821

scuddick1823

bit1829

posh1830

rag1866

tosser1935

1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 6 I went up the Gaming Ordinary, and lost all my Ready; they left me not a Rag or Sock.

†2. A pocket. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > bag or pouch worn on person > [noun]

pocketc1450

pokea1616

placket1655

sack1699

sock1699

groper1789

kick1851

jewel bag1853

jewellery bag1855

sky rocket1887

sky1890

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew

3. Credit, ‘tick’.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit

creance1399

trust1509

credence?a1513

credit1542

tick1668

strap1828

jawbone1862

sock1874

cred1973

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 301 He gets goods on sock, while I pay ready.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

sockn.⁸

Etymology: Shortened < socket n.

rare.

= socket n. 5.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > a receding part > socket

base?c1335

mortisec1390

socket1448

hem1559

mortise hole1585

sock1803

shoe1858

bayonet-socket1892

1803 H. K. White Gondoline in Clifton Grove 60 The eyes were starting from their socks, The mouth it ghastly grinn'd.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

† sockv.¹

Etymology: Of obscure origin.

Obsolete.

transitive. To sew (a corpse) in or into a shroud. Also with up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > prepare corpse [verb (transitive)] > bind or wrap in shroud

bindc1000

winda1325

trammel1536

shroud1577

sock1584

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. ii. 42 They which socke the corps.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vi. vii. 124 Needels wherwith dead bodies are sowne or sockt into their sheetes.

a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) i. ii. 364 The same Needles..that soawes, and socks-vp dead-men in their Sheetes.

1643 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1868) 20 105 Paid more for a sheet to socke her in, 2s. 8¹/ ₂d., and for laying her forthe and socking of her, 2s. 2¹/ ₂d.

Derivatives

† socking-sheet n. Obsolete a winding-sheet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud

sheetc1000

sendala1300

sudaryc1380

winding-clotha1400

winding-sheetc1420

kellc1425

sindonc1500

shroud1570

shrouding sheet1576

cerement1604

church cloth1639

socking-sheet1691

death cloth1699

sow1763

windinga1825

burial-cloth1876

negligée1927

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 60 It was his custom..every night to hang his shroud and socking or burial-sheet at his beds feet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

sockv.²

Etymology: Of obscure origin.

slang.

1. transitive.

a. (a) To beat, strike hard, hit. to sock a person one: to give (him) a hard blow. (b) figurative (U.S.) To give a hard blow to; esp. to take large sums of money from (someone).

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society > trade and finance > charges > [verb (transitive)] > overcharge

overchargea1400

surcharge1429

overset?1533

sauce1602

hoist1607

over-reckon1615

extortionc1650

sock1699

fleece1719

soak1895

slug1925

rob1934

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously

dingc1300

knock1377

thwack1533

stoter1690

sock1699

whack1721

slog1824

whither1825

drub1849

thack1861

slug1862

dang1866

whomp1973

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > suddenly or severely

windshake1614

to knock for a loop1936

whiplash1957

sock1978

(a)

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sock, to Beat... I'll Sock ye, I'll Drub ye tightly.

1870 R. B. Mansfield School Life Winchester Coll. 234 Sock, to hit hard at Cricket.

1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 28 We socks 'im with a stretcher-pole.

1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 30 ‘Sock 'em, Blackie!’ said W. Smith. ‘Sock the swine!’ echoed his brother.

1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 289 Once she'd tramped on the gas of a ninety-horse~power racer and socked him against a stone wall.

1926 Variety 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.

1927 D. B. W. Lewis On Straw 61 Sock 'im on the ear, Sargint.

1931 F. Buck & E. Anthony Bring 'em back Alive 231 More than once I was tempted to sock him one.

1933 G. B. Shaw Polit. Madhouse Amer. 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.

1982 B. Chatwin On Black Hill xiv. 67 The porter had socked him on the jaw, and he now lay, face down on the paving.

(b)1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xvi. 248 Find out how much they gonna sock ya for the lessons.1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? x. 191 When a moving picture is right, it socks the eye and the ear and the solar plexus.1943 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 1/2 Cost rises are so precipitate..that one Congressman..suggested ‘we're being socked everywhere in foreign countries.’1973 J. 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.1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a.8/1 The township socked the company with a building permit violation.

b. U.S. (See quot. 1848.)

ΚΠ

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To Sock, to press by a hard blow a man's hat over his head and face.

(a) To drive or thrust in or in(to) something. Originally and chiefly U.S.

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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly

thrustc1175

quevena1400

stopc1480

ingyre1513

ram1519

dig1553

intrude1563

purr1574

spring1597

grub1607

inject1611

ingest1617

sock1843

to dig in1885

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > cause to penetrate by pushing

thrusta1400

runc1485

job1573

sock1843

1843 Spirit of Times 15 July 234/1 About one hundred yards from home, Spicer pulled Beppo out, and ‘socked in’ his spurs.

1845 T. J. Green Jrnl. Texian Exped. xvii. 321 The corporal ‘socked’ it [sc. a shoe-maker's awl] in the thick of his back.

1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah (1927) xiii. 168 I..socks my big knife up to the Green River.

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ii. 37 The very next day they put me in jail—socked me right in with them two Hodges.

1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 20 'Strewth, but I socked it them hard!

1898 Westm. 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 figurative; frequently in imperative, as catchphrase sock it to me (them, etc.)!, used to express encouragement, sexual invitation, etc. Also in noun phrase sock-it-to-me, a loud and violent style of music; a piece of such music. Originally and chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object

drepeOE

smitec1200

buffet?c1225

strike1377

rapa1400

seta1400

frontc1400

ballc1450

throw1488

to bear (a person) a blow1530

fetch1556

douse1559

knetcha1564

slat1577

to hit any one a blow1597

wherret1599

alapate1609

shock1614

baske1642

measure1652

plump1785

jow1802

nobble1841

scuff1841

clump1864

bust1873

plonk1874

to sock it to1877

dot1881

biff1888

dong1889

slosh1890

to soak it to1892

to cop (a person) one1898

poke1906

to hang one on1908

bop1931

clonk1949

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat

shendc893

overwinOE

overheaveOE

mate?c1225

to say checkmatea1346

vanquishc1366

stightlea1375

outrayc1390

to put undera1393

forbeat1393

to shave (a person's) beardc1412

to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425

adawc1440

supprisec1440

to knock downc1450

to put to the worsta1475

waurc1475

convanquish1483

to put out1485

trima1529

convince1548

foil1548

whip1571

evict1596

superate1598

reduce1605

convict1607

defail1608

cast1610

banga1616

evince1620

worst1646

conquer1655

cuffa1657

trounce1657

to ride down1670

outdo1677

routa1704

lurcha1716

fling1790

bowl1793

lick1800

beat1801

mill1810

to row (someone) up Salt River1828

defeat1830

sack1830

skunk1832

whop1836

pip1838

throw1850

to clean out1858

take1864

wallop1865

to sock it to1877

whack1877

to clean up1888

to beat out1893

to see off1919

to lower the boom on1920

tonk1926

clobber1944

ace1950

to run into the ground1955

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > expressions of commendation [interjection] > inviting commendation

how is that for high?1869

sock it to me (them, etc.)!1963

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > style of composition

French Impressionism1884

monothematism1886

impressionism1889

blues1915

neoprimitivism1922

pointillism1922

blue1924

stile concitato1926

kineticism1939

stile antico1944

galant1949

sock it to me (them, etc.)!1970

1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 623 Two loafers are fighting; one of the crowd cries out, ‘Sock it to him.’

1883 ‘M. 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 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiii. 422 ‘Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, we pay only four 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.

1901 Cent. Mag. May 124 We shall sock it to them, we shall indeed.

1927 O. W. Holmes in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) II. 975 I have heard an English judge sock it to the jury in a murder case.

1963 B. J. Chute Shift to Right 153 There was a shriek from the panting Trenton stands: ‘Yea, Rusty. Sock it to 'em.’

1968 Telegraph (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’.

1969 R. Lowell Notebk. 137 The little girl's bedroom, perfect with posters: ‘Do not enter,’ and ‘Sock it to me, Baby.’

1969 Times 19 July 9/6 The black American phrase ‘sock it to me’ (with an obscene connotation).

1969 Times 29 July 1/3 If President Nixon is going to ‘sock it’ to anyone, the likeliest recipient is the South Vietnamese government.

1970 S. Sheldon Naked Face (1971) ii. 16 She reached between his legs and stroked him, whispering, ‘Go, baby. Sock it to me.’

1970 Melody Maker 11 July 19/7 It's good to hear Pickett getting away from the sock-it-to-me and into gentler songs.

1971 West 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.

1977 New Yorker 2 May 34/2 I can't afford a second divorce. Daphne would really sock it to me.

1978 Railway 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. Frequently in to sock it (out).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz

sock1927

groove1935

swing1936

to put down1952

1927 Melody Maker July 697 Sock out your last chorus on that, my friends.

1933 Fortune Aug. 47/1 Returning to Trombonist Brown, he can get off, swing it, sock it, smear it, or go to town (all of which mean syncopate to beat the band).

1935 Vanity Fair 45 71/3 Hot artists or bands that can put across their licks successfully are ‘senders’;..they can ‘sock it’.

1955 N. Shapiro & N. 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.

1968 Radio Times 28 Nov. 47/1 He's spent his evenings singing in pubs..‘socking’ out the rhythm and blues.

1976 New Yorker 12 Jan. 37 (caption) From the top—‘Watermelon Man’. Let's sock it out and give Mrs. Ritterhouse a chance to really cook.

e. To drive or push down.

ΚΠ

1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River i The Spindrift, travelling at speed, sent up a young hill of water that would have made even a fully laden barge cock up her heels and sock her old nose down till half her rudder showed clear.

2. intransitive. To strike out, deliver blows; to pitch into one.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)] > strike out

flingc1380

bursta1450

to lash out1567

belay1598

outlash1611

slash1689

to throw out1772

to let out1840

to hit out1856

sock1856

1856 Lyrics in War Time, Orphan's Song I scolded and I socked, But it minded not a whit.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 240 ‘Sock into him,’ i.e. give him a good drubbing.

Derivatives

ˈsocking n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > defeating completely

profligationc1475

scrubbing1813

smashing1821

dish1891

tanking1905

socking1978

1978 N.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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sockv.³

Etymology: < sock n.⁵

Eton College slang.

1. transitive. To treat (one) to sock; to present or give (something) to one.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > entertain with food

feasta1325

festya1382

rehetec1400

cheerc1425

table1457

treata1578

banquet1594

kitchena1616

junket1642

regale1656

collation1662

fete1812

sport1826

sock1842

blow1949

1842 Eton Bureau iv. 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.

1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 44/2 That a schoolfellow would ‘sock him’, i.e. treat him to sock at the pastry cooks.

1889 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 65 My governor socked me a book.

2. intransitive. To buy or consume sock.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > supply with food [verb (intransitive)] > seek or acquire food

forage1530

raven1560

prog1579

size1598

snoop1848

sock1883

1883 J. Brinsley-Richards Seven Years at Eton v. 38 We Eton fellows, great and small, ‘socked’ prodigiously.

1889 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 65 My governor socked me a book.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

sockv.⁴

Etymology: Imitative.

south-western dialect.

intransitive. To sigh.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh [verb (intransitive)]

sichec893

sikec1175

sigh1377

to sigh unsound?a1400

sightc1450

sithec1450

throb1557

to break a sigh1765

heave1820

sock1863

the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (intransitive)] > sigh

sichec893

sikec1175

sughc1175

sigh1377

sightc1450

sithec1450

suspirec1450

soughc1475

supire?1590

to break a sigh1765

sock1863

1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Sock, to sigh with a loudish sound.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xviii. 243 She pined and pined, and socked and sighed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

sockv.⁵

Etymology: < sock n.¹ 2.

1. transitive. To provide with socks; to put socks on (one).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > covering for legs (and feet)

hosec1300

stock1430

strapple1607

stocking1755

gaiter1760

sock1897

1897 A. C. Gunter Ballyho Bey xx. 231 How beautifully Irene has socked my feet!

1902 J. M. Barrie Little White Bird xi. 107 She had trouble in socking him every morning.

2. colloquial (originally U.S.). To put (money) aside as savings. Also with away.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (transitive)] > put money aside

savec1390

to save up1721

sock1942

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §376/5 Save…sock one's money away.

1951 D. Cusack & F. James Come in Spinner 297 I bet he's socked a pretty packet away.

1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate iii. 97 Instead of gambling a fortune away at the wheels..[Kitty] was wisely socking it into the bank.

1963 C. 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.

1971 Maclean's Sept. 11/2 Now they seem to believe that a buck earned is a buck to be socked away.

1978 R. Doliner On the Edge v. 84 He's got to have money... How much you figure he socked away?

3. North American. Of fog, cloud, etc.: to close in, to enshroud.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [verb (transitive)] > confine because of mist, fog, or smog

sock1950

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1950 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Sock in.

1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §761/2 Socked in, ceiling zero.

1955 Sci. 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.

1969 Daily Tel. 21 May 1/6 All of Europe, the Soviet Union,..are socked in cloud cover.

1975 High Times Dec. 70/3 Pilots..are often completely socked in by fog and haze.

1976 C. Egleton State Visit iii. 25 Wednesday is always a busy day... As long as the airfield isn't socked in.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

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单词	sock
释义	sockn.¹ Brit. /sɒk/, U.S. /sɑk/ Forms: Old English socc, Middle English–1600s socke, 1600s– sock (1600s socque); Middle English–1500s sokke, Middle English–1500s sok (Middle English soke). Plural also sox (see as main entry). Etymology: Old English socc, < Latin soccus a light low-heeled shoe or slipper: of the same origin are Old High German soch, soc (Middle High German soc, socke, German socke, socken), Middle Low German socke, Middle Dutch socke, soc (Dutch zok, West Frisian sok), Old Icelandic sokkr (Icelandic sokkur, Norwegian sokk, Swedish sock, Danish sokke). Also French soque (1611). 1. a. A covering for the foot, of the nature of a light shoe, slipper, or pump. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > light shoe or slipper sockc725 pinson1388 slipper?1478 pantan1489 pump1555 slip-shoe1555 pinsnet1583 pump shoe1689 baff1914 baffie1917 c725 Corpus Gloss. S 394 Soccus, socc, slebescoh. a1030 Rule St. Benet (Logeman) 92 Pedules et caligas, soccas & hosan. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 400/2 Pynsone, sokke, pedipomita. 1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 99 A peyre of old sokkys, or pinsones, whech our maystir had often wered. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Calcearium, a shoe, pinson, or socke. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Calceo,..to put on shoes, sockes or pinsons. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 621 Not being permitted to weare shooes, but in stead thereof vse sockes made of Rushes. 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus 430 A Shooe like a slipper with an heel, which we call a Sock. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant 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. 1799 Monthly Rev. 30 487 They have all very small feet, from inclosing them as tight as possible in socks of morocco leather. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 360 The few [Highlanders] who were so luxurious as to wear rude socks of untanned hide. †b. [After Italian zoccollo.] A sandal, patten, or clog. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific types of sole > wooden sole clog1416 galoshc1440 sock1691 sabot1840 geta1876 bakya1916 1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 131 A large Convent of Religious,..called by the Italians, Soccelanti, because of the wooden Socks they were instead of Shoes. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Socque, a kind of Sandal, or wooden Patin for the Feet, worn by the begging Friers. 2. a. (a) A short stocking covering the foot and usually reaching to the calf of the leg; half-hose; also, = ankle sock n. at ankle n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > types of > short stocking or sock vamp?c1225 sock1327 vampethc1424 vampeyc1425 short-hose1530 slip-stocking1673 almond1932 1327 Pol. Songs (Camden) 330 Hii weren sockes in here shon, and felted botes above. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 961 His shon, sokkis, & hosyn, to draw of be ye bolde. 1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 481 Payd fore ij. payr shoes and ij. payr sokkes, xvj.d. 1531 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 19 Ane elne small canves to be the King ane pair of sokkis. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 192/2 You must..put on a clean payer of sockes. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. i. ii. 236 One pulled of his socks, another made ready his bed. 1682 J. Dryden Medall Epist. Whigs sig. a1 Even Protestant Socks are bought up among you, out of veneration to the name. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. l. 332 They use..socks of wool, which reach over the ankles. 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 122 Two or three pair of woollen socks, which we have on our feet. (b) Slang and colloquial phrases: to turn a sock; in one's socks, as a condition of measurement of stature; = to stand in one's stockings at stocking n.² 5a (cf. in one's shoes at shoe n. 2c); to knock the socks off (someone), and variants (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’; usually in imperative; old socks (originally North American): a familiar form of address. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > [adverb] > as condition of measurement of height in one's socksa1529 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make effort to recover oneself to pull, shake oneself togethera1400 to pull one's socks upa1529 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking to make up one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 blina1300 dumba1300 leavea1375 to put a sock in ita1529 hush1548 silence1551 stay1551 stow1567 stop1579 to save one's breath (also wind)1605 tace1697 stubble it!1699 shut your trap!1796 to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808 stubble your whids!1830 to shut up1840 to dry up1853 pawl1867 subside1872 to pipe down1876 to shut (one's) head, face1876 shurrup1893 to shut off1896 clam1916 dry1934 shtum1958 to oyster up1973 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] > not utter to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275 peacec1395 muffa1500 to put a sock in ita1529 whista1547 to say not muff1652 to hold one's whisht1786 to shut (one's) pan1799 to shut up1840 to hold one's whistc1874 to shut (one's) head, face1876 to wrap up1943 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly threshc1384 to knock the socks offa1529 thump1597 thrash1609 thwacka1616 capot1649 to beat to snuff1819 to knock into a cocked hat1830 to —— (the) hell out of1833 sledgehammer1834 rout1835 whop1836 skin1838 whip-saw1842 to knock (the) spots off1850 to make mincemeat of1853 to mop (up) the floor with1875 to beat pointless1877 to lick into fits1879 to take apart1880 to knock out1883 wax1884 contund1885 to give (a person) fits1885 to wipe the floor with1887 flatten1892 to knock (someone) for six1902 slaughter1903 slather1910 to hit for six1937 hammer1948 whomp1952 bulldozer1954 zilch1957 shred1966 tank1973 slam-dunk1975 beast1977 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiii Trymme at her tayle or a man can turne a socke. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Cviij^v They maye go turne a socke. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 2 He..stood four feet six inches and three-quarters in his socks.1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 311 The socks which the women there knit.1913 T. 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.1927 in C. J. Finger Frontier Ballads 69 This Floyd stood six feet in his socks and passed for mighty fly.1977 Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 40/3 (advt.) 11 hands in his socks... Smart, free-moving pony.1845 C. 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.1964 J. 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.1979 Arizona 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.’1893 H. F. McLelland Jack & Beanstalk 31 Pull up your socks! I'll see naught goes wrong with you.1906 Daily 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.1924 H. A. Vachell Quinney's Adventures 269 Metaphorically an Irish-American ‘pulled up his socks’.1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart iv. 294 There's hope for you if you pull your socks up.1976 Southern Evening 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.1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 729/2 The expression ‘Put a sock in it’, meaning ‘Leave off talking, singing or shouting’.1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words s.v. ‘Shut up, put a sock into it.’1930 J. 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.1932 R. C. Ashby Plot against Widow xxi. 172 ‘Oh, put a sock in it!’ she invited him scornfully.1933 M. 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.’1978 A. Price '44 Vintage vi. 69 He..drew his finger across his throat, grinning horribly. ‘Put a sock in it, Taf,’ said Sergeant Purvis sharply.1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. iii. 185 Gee, it's good to have a look at you, old socks!1934 H. G. Radcliffe in Passing Show 27 Jan. 5/4 Hey, Morrison, old socks. How's things!1950 R. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > mark or streak > white mark or patch snip1562 white sock1893 1893 M. H. Hayes Points of Horse (1897) xx. 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. colloquial. A sock used as a receptacle for storing one's money; hence, a store of money. Cf. stocking n.² 2a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun] > stocking used as hoggerc1725 moggan1842 stocking1873 sock1930 1930 P. G. Wodehouse 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. 1949 H. MacLennan Precipice iii. 248 Once we've got enough put away in the sock I'm going to..go back to M.I.T. 1951 D. Cusack & F. 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. 1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues x. 108 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. New Zealand. (See quot. 1965.) ΚΠ 1955 G. Bowen Wool Away! iii. 45 Many sheepowners do not like socks taken off, as it puts hair in the wool. 1965 N.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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] sock and buskin1597 scene1616 drama1661 theatre1668 dramatics1684 dramaturgy1801 proscenium1812 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > costume > ancient Greek or Roman buskin1570 sock1597 mask1600 cothurn1606 cothurno1611 cothurnal1626 cothurnus1728 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > light shoe or slipper > other pantofle1494 mule1562 pantap1570 scarpinea1586 sock1597 sandal1794 powdering slipper1800 carpet slipper1851 Romeo slipper1889 Romeo1892 slipperslapper1922 Grecian slipper1926 Slipperette1931 ballerina1947 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. i. 2 Trumpet,..and socks, and buskins fine, I them bequeath. 1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor i. i. sig. B The Greekes (to whom we owe the first inuention Both of the buskind scæne and humble socke [printed stocke; 1722 Sock]). 1682 J. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 7 Great Fletcher never treads in Buskins here, Nor greater Johnson dares in Socks appear. 1747 W. Collins Odes 43 The comic Sock that binds thy Feet. 1783 W. Cowper Valediction 34 To live by buskin, sock, and raree-show. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. xi. 445 Gentlemen of the sock and buskin are not on the best possible terms with the church. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxx. 16 He was a critic upon operas, too, And knew all niceties of the sock and buskin. †4. (See quot. 1611) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > clod > other clods clota1398 sock1611 iron mould1706 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues 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. technical. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > upper > types of top1629 boot-top1771 sock1851 boot-uppera1877 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > other speckc1440 under-leather1569 rand1598 tongue1598 ruffle1600 underlay1612 tap1688 jump1712 bottom1768 boot-garter1824 yarking1825 range1840 counter1841 insole1851 sock1851 galosh1853 heel plate1862 lift1862 foxing1865 spring1885 saddle1930 1851 Mechanics' Mag. 22 Mar. 239 A method of making the ‘socks’ or uppers of boots. 1851 Mechanics' Mag. 22 Mar. 239 The sock is made of knitted material, with an elastic band at top. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 520/1 Varieties of socks for shoes, of cork and gutta percha covered with lamb skin. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sock,..an inner warm sole for a shoe. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1883 Daily News 17 Sept. 2/3 In the sock department..there are complaints of want of business. 1899 Daily News 27 Dec. 8/3 His tailoring and his sock-darning. C2. sock foot n. U.S. = stocking-foot n. 3. ΚΠ 1934 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 47 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. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. viii. 177 Pull off yo' shoes and set in yo' sock feet. sock-footed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings stockinged1609 (in, on) one's stocking feet1805 stockinged1862 stocking-footed1926 stocking-feeted1973 sock-footed1981 1981 Nordic Skiing Jan. 34/2 Chairback is for the making of memories…unforgettable skiing, bone-easing hot shower and sauna, a fine dinner, a tumbler of mulled wine, sock-footed by your woodstove. sock-suspender n. = suspender n. 4b. See also sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > for holding up > suspender suspender1878 sock-suspender1912 1912 E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case iii. 36 He had on a complete outfit of underclothing, studs in his shirt, sock-suspenders. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xiii An earthy brute who wore sock-suspenders. 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Jill the Reckless xviii. 330 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. 1978 S. Wilson Dealer's Move ix. 185 One of his trousers had been dragged up to his knee... He was wearing sock suspenders. Draft additions 1993 Aeronautics. Shortening of wind sock n. at wind n.¹ Compounds 2. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > wind sock wind cone1918 wind sleeve1920 wind sock1929 sock1933 1933 Sun (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. 1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 461 Red and white boundary stripes and a yellow ‘sock’ bellying in the wind mark the Holopaw Emergency Landing Field. 1956 W. 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. Draft additions June 2004 sock puppet n. originally U.S. a simple puppet made from a sock that is fitted over and moved by the hand and fingers; (also figurative) a person whose actions are controlled by another; a minion. ΚΠ 1959 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 24 Sept. 12 (advt.) Shari Lewis Sock Puppet Reg. $1.39. 1969 N.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. 1997 E. 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. 2000 U.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’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sockn.² Brit. /sɒk/, U.S. /sɑk/, Scottish English /sɔk/ Forms: Middle English sokk(e, Middle English–1500s sok, Middle English–1600s soke; 1500s sucke, socke, 1600s– sock. Etymology: < Old French soc (12th cent.; so modern French), commonly regarded as of Celtic origin. northern and Scottish. 1. a. A ploughshare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > ploughshare shareOE ploughsharea1387 sock1404 sough?a1475 suck1499 soke1661 plough point1837 1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 398 2 aratra cum 2 sokkis. 1405–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 222 Pro 1 sok et ploghschoue. 1483 Cath. Angl. 348/2 A Sokk of a plughe,..vomer vel vomis. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xi. 79 Al instrumentis of pleuch graith,..As culturis, sokis, and the sovmis gret. 1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 170 A kowter, a soke, a muk fowe, a graype, 2 yerne forks. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piii/1 Y^e Sucke of a plow. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) A Sock or Plough-sock, a Plough-share. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry ii. i When such leaves..are..turned over with the sock, and mixed with the lower ground. 1765 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xi. 236 The plough thus set right by the way of fitting on the sock, will be heavy to draw. 1814 W. Scott Diary 6 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 153 An old-fashioned Zetland plough..had..a coulter, but no sock. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 411 The share or sock..is fitted upon a prolongation of the sole-bar of the body-frame. 1890 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries 9 Jan. 30 A lad, whilst ploughing,..found the bronze bell wedged on to the ‘sock’ of the plough. b. attributive, as sock-guard, sock-iron, sock-plate. ΚΠ 1371 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 7 Et in..j sokeiren, j pari belowes,..emptis. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of 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. 1893 in 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 attributive with land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughing and mowing sock and scythe1597 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione 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. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 26 I was fit for baith sock and sythe. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 412 At sock or scythe they hae nae match. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sockn.³ Forms: Also Old English soc, Middle English sok. Etymology: Old English soc (also gesoc), < the weak grade of súcan to suck, = Middle Dutch soc, zoc suck (Kilian sock, West Frisian sok, the suck of water in the wake of a ship). Now dialect. †1. Suck (given to a child). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant sockc1000 suck13.. nourishingc1325 nursing?1533 lactation1668 suckling1842 breastfeeding1858 c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxi. 8 On þone dæg þe man þæt cild fram soce Sarra ateah. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xi. 8 [The child] that shal be taken awei fro sok, or wenyd. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 391 Sesez childer of her sok. 2. a. dialect. Wet or moisture collecting in, or percolating through, soil. (Cf. soak n. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > [noun] > water in or percolating through soil sock1799 ground-sype1839 soil water1892 soil solution1901 pore water1927 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 15 The sock or soak among the silt is sometimes brackish. c1818 J. Britton Lincs. 560 Entering the fens, it leaves a portion of its waters and sludge or sock. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Sock, the superficial moisture of land not properly drained off. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 293 Throughout all the marshes and many of the fens are found those subterranean currents called the soak or sock. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 305 A sock-dyke or drain. b. The drainage of a dunghill; liquid manure. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung dungOE muckc1268 dunging?1440 fimea1475 fulyiec1480 tath1492 soil1607 street soil1607 dung-water1608 soiling1610 mucking1611 short dung, manure, muck1618 folding1626 muck water1626 stable manure1629 long dung1658 spit-dunga1671 stercoration1694 street dirt1694 horse-litter1721 pot-dunga1722 sock1790 street manure1793 police manure1825 fold-manure1829 slurry1965 1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 442 Sock, the drainage of a farm yard: hence sock-pit, the receptacle of such drainage. 1896 in Eng. Dial. Dict. There was no sock above the outlet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). sockn.⁴ Brit. /sɒk/, U.S. /sɑk/ Etymology: Compare sock v.² slang. 1. A blow; a beating. Chiefly in to give (one) sock(s), to give a sound thrashing or beating. Also in a sock in the eye (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (intransitive)] > specifically a person to lay ona1225 to dust a person's jacket1630 to brush one's coat for him1665 to give (one) sock(s)1699 pepper1829 lam1875 beast1990 the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person buffet?c1225 flatc1320 boxc1330 rapc1330 plaguea1382 puncha1450 buffc1475 jowl?1516 beff1768 funk1790 fib1814 cob1828 one1876 biff1889 clump1889 one in the eye1891 conk1898 fourpenny one1936 a sock in the eye1972 kennedy- 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Tip Tip the Culls a Sock, for they are sawcy, Knock down the Men for resisting. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 240 ‘Give him Sock,’ i.e. thrash him well. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 30 Nov. 2/2 Hope we give these brutes socks; they are plugging us all round now. 1972 P. G. Wodehouse 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 P. G. Wodehouse 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. 1979 Woman & 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’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > [noun] > strong sensation1807 sock1936 zap1968 1936 Swing Music Mar. 10/1 I used to get a terrific sock out of Rappolo riding high on his clarinet. 1937 B. Goodman This Thing called Swing 9 Sock, emphasis, usually referring to the last chorus. 1950 Audio Engin. Sept. 14/3 More low middles increase the Punch until the program is solid, and has sock. 1972 Publishers Weekly 21 Aug. 15/1 (advt.) Here's solid history with the sock of unforgettable fiction. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 22 July C3/2 I figure we have enough speed and sock in our lineup to score runs. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. sock chorus n. Jazz (see quot. 1936). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz jazz1918 break1926 chorus1926 stop time1929 tag1929 lick1932 riff1933 ride1935 release1936 sock chorus1936 rideout1939 screamer1940 stop chords1941 chase1942 stop chorus1942 mop1945 1936 Delineator Nov. 49/2 Sock chorus, last chorus of an arrangement. 1937 Metronome Mar. 31/1 The full sock chorus..hits you between the eyes. 1956 E. Hunter Second Ending iv. 69 They rode into the sock chorus like a storm cloud of marauders. sock cymbal n. Jazz = high hat n. 3; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > cymbal cymbalc825 chimea1300 chime-bellc1300 basinsa1350 target1696 zill1754 cymbalon1824 finger cymbal1845 crash cymbal1927 choke-cymbal1934 sock cymbal1936 sizzle cymbal1944 top cymbal1948 ride1956 splash cymbal1961 1936 Metronome Feb. 61/2 Off beat cymbal, sock cymbal. 1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop iii. 80 Kenny originally played the old Jo Jones sock cymbal style. 1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 7/3 You wouldn't play your sock cymbal the same as your ride cymbal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sockn.⁵ Etymology: Of obscure origin. Eton College slang. Eatables of various kinds, especially dainties. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > delicacy or titbit daintethc1290 daintyc1300 morselc1390 confection1393 delicec1405 delicacya1425 delicatea1475 friandise1484 deliciositiesa1500 daintive1526 junket1538 knack1548 daintrel1575 cate1578 pulpament1600 gaudy1622 regalo1622 daint1633 titbita1641 scitament1656 regale1673 knick-knack1682 nicety1704 bonne bouche1721 diablotin1770 sunket1788 regalement1795 confiture1802 bon-bon1821 sock1825 delicatessen1853 good things1861 tiddlywinks1893 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 39 Then, after holidays, Tom..gives sock so graciously, that he is the very life of dame ——'s party. 1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 310 Sellers of ‘sock’, that is, eatables,—sweet mixtures generally. 1881 in Pascoe Every-day Life, etc. 25 The consumption of ‘sock’ too in school was considerable. attributive.1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 194 There's my old sock-shop. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). sockn.⁶ Etymology: ? elliptical for sock-lamb n. A pet child or young animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > pet pet1539 peat1566 companion1608 sock1840 dumb friend1870 the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > of or to a child chickc1330 dillydowna1500 dilling1584 dotey1663 cherub1680 dilli-darling1693 dilli-minion1693 chickabiddy?1775 chicken1809 dote1809 chick-a-diddle1826 sock-lamb1838 sock1840 childie1848 chickadee1860 doy1862 diddums1893 pumpkin1900 poopsie1937 bubele1959 1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 41 Master Neddy is ‘grandpapa's darling’, and Mary Anne mamma's particular ‘Sock’. 1869 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 500 You know you are a little sock! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). sockn.⁷ Etymology: Of obscure origin: the senses have probably no connection with each other. slang. †1. ? A small coin. (Cf. rag n.² 6c) Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively > a small coin orkyn1542 liarda1549 solda1549 scute1594 orkey1648 sock1688 styca1705 dump1821 scuddick1823 bit1829 posh1830 rag1866 tosser1935 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 6 I went up the Gaming Ordinary, and lost all my Ready; they left me not a Rag or Sock. †2. A pocket. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > bag or pouch worn on person > [noun] pocketc1450 pokea1616 placket1655 sack1699 sock1699 groper1789 kick1851 jewel bag1853 jewellery bag1855 sky rocket1887 sky1890 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew 3. Credit, ‘tick’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit creance1399 trust1509 credence?a1513 credit1542 tick1668 strap1828 jawbone1862 sock1874 cred1973 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 301 He gets goods on sock, while I pay ready. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). sockn.⁸ Etymology: Shortened < socket n. rare. = socket n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > a receding part > socket base?c1335 mortisec1390 socket1448 hem1559 mortise hole1585 sock1803 shoe1858 bayonet-socket1892 1803 H. K. White Gondoline in Clifton Grove 60 The eyes were starting from their socks, The mouth it ghastly grinn'd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † sockv.¹ Etymology: Of obscure origin. Obsolete. transitive. To sew (a corpse) in or into a shroud. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > prepare corpse [verb (transitive)] > bind or wrap in shroud bindc1000 winda1325 trammel1536 shroud1577 sock1584 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. ii. 42 They which socke the corps. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vi. vii. 124 Needels wherwith dead bodies are sowne or sockt into their sheetes. a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) i. ii. 364 The same Needles..that soawes, and socks-vp dead-men in their Sheetes. 1643 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1868) 20 105 Paid more for a sheet to socke her in, 2s. 8¹/ ₂d., and for laying her forthe and socking of her, 2s. 2¹/ ₂d. Derivatives † socking-sheet n. Obsolete a winding-sheet. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud sheetc1000 sendala1300 sudaryc1380 winding-clotha1400 winding-sheetc1420 kellc1425 sindonc1500 shroud1570 shrouding sheet1576 cerement1604 church cloth1639 socking-sheet1691 death cloth1699 sow1763 windinga1825 burial-cloth1876 negligée1927 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 60 It was his custom..every night to hang his shroud and socking or burial-sheet at his beds feet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021). sockv.² Etymology: Of obscure origin. slang. 1. transitive. a. (a) To beat, strike hard, hit. to sock a person one: to give (him) a hard blow. (b) figurative (U.S.) To give a hard blow to; esp. to take large sums of money from (someone). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > charges > [verb (transitive)] > overcharge overchargea1400 surcharge1429 overset?1533 sauce1602 hoist1607 over-reckon1615 extortionc1650 sock1699 fleece1719 soak1895 slug1925 rob1934 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously dingc1300 knock1377 thwack1533 stoter1690 sock1699 whack1721 slog1824 whither1825 drub1849 thack1861 slug1862 dang1866 whomp1973 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > suddenly or severely windshake1614 to knock for a loop1936 whiplash1957 sock1978 (a) 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sock, to Beat... I'll Sock ye, I'll Drub ye tightly. 1870 R. B. Mansfield School Life Winchester Coll. 234 Sock, to hit hard at Cricket. 1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 28 We socks 'im with a stretcher-pole. 1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 30 ‘Sock 'em, Blackie!’ said W. Smith. ‘Sock the swine!’ echoed his brother. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 289 Once she'd tramped on the gas of a ninety-horse~power racer and socked him against a stone wall. 1926 Variety 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. 1927 D. B. W. Lewis On Straw 61 Sock 'im on the ear, Sargint. 1931 F. Buck & E. Anthony Bring 'em back Alive 231 More than once I was tempted to sock him one. 1933 G. B. Shaw Polit. Madhouse Amer. 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. 1982 B. Chatwin On Black Hill xiv. 67 The porter had socked him on the jaw, and he now lay, face down on the paving. (b)1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xvi. 248 Find out how much they gonna sock ya for the lessons.1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? x. 191 When a moving picture is right, it socks the eye and the ear and the solar plexus.1943 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 1/2 Cost rises are so precipitate..that one Congressman..suggested ‘we're being socked everywhere in foreign countries.’1973 J. 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.1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a.8/1 The township socked the company with a building permit violation. b. U.S. (See quot. 1848.) ΚΠ 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To Sock, to press by a hard blow a man's hat over his head and face. c. (a) To drive or thrust in or in(to) something. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly thrustc1175 quevena1400 stopc1480 ingyre1513 ram1519 dig1553 intrude1563 purr1574 spring1597 grub1607 inject1611 ingest1617 sock1843 to dig in1885 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > cause to penetrate by pushing thrusta1400 runc1485 job1573 sock1843 1843 Spirit of Times 15 July 234/1 About one hundred yards from home, Spicer pulled Beppo out, and ‘socked in’ his spurs. 1845 T. J. Green Jrnl. Texian Exped. xvii. 321 The corporal ‘socked’ it [sc. a shoe-maker's awl] in the thick of his back. 1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah (1927) xiii. 168 I..socks my big knife up to the Green River. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ii. 37 The very next day they put me in jail—socked me right in with them two Hodges. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 20 'Strewth, but I socked it them hard! 1898 Westm. 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 figurative; frequently in imperative, as catchphrase sock it to me (them, etc.)!, used to express encouragement, sexual invitation, etc. Also in noun phrase sock-it-to-me, a loud and violent style of music; a piece of such music. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object drepeOE smitec1200 buffet?c1225 strike1377 rapa1400 seta1400 frontc1400 ballc1450 throw1488 to bear (a person) a blow1530 fetch1556 douse1559 knetcha1564 slat1577 to hit any one a blow1597 wherret1599 alapate1609 shock1614 baske1642 measure1652 plump1785 jow1802 nobble1841 scuff1841 clump1864 bust1873 plonk1874 to sock it to1877 dot1881 biff1888 dong1889 slosh1890 to soak it to1892 to cop (a person) one1898 poke1906 to hang one on1908 bop1931 clonk1949 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > expressions of commendation [interjection] > inviting commendation how is that for high?1869 sock it to me (them, etc.)!1963 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > style of composition French Impressionism1884 monothematism1886 impressionism1889 blues1915 neoprimitivism1922 pointillism1922 blue1924 stile concitato1926 kineticism1939 stile antico1944 galant1949 sock it to me (them, etc.)!1970 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 623 Two loafers are fighting; one of the crowd cries out, ‘Sock it to him.’ 1883 ‘M. 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 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiii. 422 ‘Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, we pay only four 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. 1901 Cent. Mag. May 124 We shall sock it to them, we shall indeed. 1927 O. W. Holmes in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) II. 975 I have heard an English judge sock it to the jury in a murder case. 1963 B. J. Chute Shift to Right 153 There was a shriek from the panting Trenton stands: ‘Yea, Rusty. Sock it to 'em.’ 1968 Telegraph (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’. 1969 R. Lowell Notebk. 137 The little girl's bedroom, perfect with posters: ‘Do not enter,’ and ‘Sock it to me, Baby.’ 1969 Times 19 July 9/6 The black American phrase ‘sock it to me’ (with an obscene connotation). 1969 Times 29 July 1/3 If President Nixon is going to ‘sock it’ to anyone, the likeliest recipient is the South Vietnamese government. 1970 S. Sheldon Naked Face (1971) ii. 16 She reached between his legs and stroked him, whispering, ‘Go, baby. Sock it to me.’ 1970 Melody Maker 11 July 19/7 It's good to hear Pickett getting away from the sock-it-to-me and into gentler songs. 1971 West 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. 1977 New Yorker 2 May 34/2 I can't afford a second divorce. Daphne would really sock it to me. 1978 Railway 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. Frequently in to sock it (out). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz sock1927 groove1935 swing1936 to put down1952 1927 Melody Maker July 697 Sock out your last chorus on that, my friends. 1933 Fortune Aug. 47/1 Returning to Trombonist Brown, he can get off, swing it, sock it, smear it, or go to town (all of which mean syncopate to beat the band). 1935 Vanity Fair 45 71/3 Hot artists or bands that can put across their licks successfully are ‘senders’;..they can ‘sock it’. 1955 N. Shapiro & N. 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. 1968 Radio Times 28 Nov. 47/1 He's spent his evenings singing in pubs..‘socking’ out the rhythm and blues. 1976 New Yorker 12 Jan. 37 (caption) From the top—‘Watermelon Man’. Let's sock it out and give Mrs. Ritterhouse a chance to really cook. e. To drive or push down. ΚΠ 1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River i The Spindrift, travelling at speed, sent up a young hill of water that would have made even a fully laden barge cock up her heels and sock her old nose down till half her rudder showed clear. 2. intransitive. To strike out, deliver blows; to pitch into one. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)] > strike out flingc1380 bursta1450 to lash out1567 belay1598 outlash1611 slash1689 to throw out1772 to let out1840 to hit out1856 sock1856 1856 Lyrics in War Time, Orphan's Song I scolded and I socked, But it minded not a whit. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 240 ‘Sock into him,’ i.e. give him a good drubbing. Derivatives ˈsocking n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > defeating completely profligationc1475 scrubbing1813 smashing1821 dish1891 tanking1905 socking1978 1978 N.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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sockv.³ Etymology: < sock n.⁵ Eton College slang. 1. transitive. To treat (one) to sock; to present or give (something) to one. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > entertain with food feasta1325 festya1382 rehetec1400 cheerc1425 table1457 treata1578 banquet1594 kitchena1616 junket1642 regale1656 collation1662 fete1812 sport1826 sock1842 blow1949 1842 Eton Bureau iv. 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. 1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 44/2 That a schoolfellow would ‘sock him’, i.e. treat him to sock at the pastry cooks. 1889 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 65 My governor socked me a book. 2. intransitive. To buy or consume sock. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > supply with food [verb (intransitive)] > seek or acquire food forage1530 raven1560 prog1579 size1598 snoop1848 sock1883 1883 J. Brinsley-Richards Seven Years at Eton v. 38 We Eton fellows, great and small, ‘socked’ prodigiously. 1889 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 65 My governor socked me a book. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2018). sockv.⁴ Etymology: Imitative. south-western dialect. intransitive. To sigh. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh [verb (intransitive)] sichec893 sikec1175 sigh1377 to sigh unsound?a1400 sightc1450 sithec1450 throb1557 to break a sigh1765 heave1820 sock1863 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (intransitive)] > sigh sichec893 sikec1175 sughc1175 sigh1377 sightc1450 sithec1450 suspirec1450 soughc1475 supire?1590 to break a sigh1765 sock1863 1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Sock, to sigh with a loudish sound. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xviii. 243 She pined and pined, and socked and sighed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019). sockv.⁵ Etymology: < sock n.¹ 2. 1. transitive. To provide with socks; to put socks on (one). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > covering for legs (and feet) hosec1300 stock1430 strapple1607 stocking1755 gaiter1760 sock1897 1897 A. C. Gunter Ballyho Bey xx. 231 How beautifully Irene has socked my feet! 1902 J. M. Barrie Little White Bird xi. 107 She had trouble in socking him every morning. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). To put (money) aside as savings. Also with away. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (transitive)] > put money aside savec1390 to save up1721 sock1942 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §376/5 Save…sock one's money away. 1951 D. Cusack & F. James Come in Spinner 297 I bet he's socked a pretty packet away. 1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate iii. 97 Instead of gambling a fortune away at the wheels..[Kitty] was wisely socking it into the bank. 1963 C. 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. 1971 Maclean's Sept. 11/2 Now they seem to believe that a buck earned is a buck to be socked away. 1978 R. Doliner On the Edge v. 84 He's got to have money... How much you figure he socked away? 3. North American. Of fog, cloud, etc.: to close in, to enshroud. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > cloud or overcast [verb (transitive)] > envelop in cloud encloud1602 nimbus1852 sock1950 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [verb (transitive)] > confine because of mist, fog, or smog sock1950 smog1966 1950 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Sock in. 1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §761/2 Socked in, ceiling zero. 1955 Sci. 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. 1969 Daily Tel. 21 May 1/6 All of Europe, the Soviet Union,..are socked in cloud cover. 1975 High Times Dec. 70/3 Pilots..are often completely socked in by fog and haze. 1976 C. Egleton State Visit iii. 25 Wednesday is always a busy day... As long as the airfield isn't socked in. 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