soc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soc"

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soʊʃ/

Noun

soc (plural socs)

  1. (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
  2. (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.
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

From Middle English soke, sok, soc, from Old English sōcn, from Proto-Germanic *sōkniz.

Alternative forms

Noun

soc

  1. (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.
  2. (Britain, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
  3. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔk/

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. stump

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sok/

Verb

soc

  1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of sóc

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/
  • (file)

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. plowshare
  2. (butchery) Boston butt

Further reading

Anagrams


Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz, whence also Old English socc, Old Norse sokkr, from Latin soccus

Noun

soc m

  1. sock

Descendants


Romanian

Etymology

From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sok/
  • Rhymes: -ok

Noun

soc m (plural soci)

  1. elder (plant)

Declension

Derived terms

  • socată
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