| 单词 | to give sock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (one) sock(s) 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. < as lemmas |
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