soc
See also: Appendix:Variations of "soc"
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soʊʃ/
Noun
soc (plural socs)
- (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
- (slang, countable) Upper class youth.
- 1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, page 2:
- We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.
- 1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, page 2:
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
From Middle English soke, sok, soc, from Old English sōcn, from Proto-Germanic *sōkniz.
Noun
soc
- (Britain, law, obsolete) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
- (Britain, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
- (Britain, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.
Derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for soc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Catalan
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔk/
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sok/
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukko (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout," from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔk/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “soc” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz, whence also Old English socc, Old Norse sokkr, from Latin soccus
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