sock

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɑk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒk/

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Socks

From Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from other Anatolian language. Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), German Socke (“sock”), Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”).

sock (plural socks or (informal, nonstandard) sox)

1. A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
2. A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors.
3. A color pattern (usually white) on a cat's lower leg that is different from the color pattern on the rest of the cat, thus giving it the impression of a wearing a sock.
4. (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A sock puppet.
5. (firearms, informal) A gun sock.

Unknown, but compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch"). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (W. Eng. dial.): zock

sock (not comparable)

1. (slang, dated) Extremely successful.
   • 1960, Billboard magazine reviewer

     Sock performance on a catchy rhythm ditty with infectious tempo.

• socko

sock (plural socks)

1. (slang) A violent blow; a punch.

sock (third-person singular simple present socks, present participle socking, simple past and past participle socked)

1. (slang, transitive) To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.
   • 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:

     What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.

   • 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Book Four:

     They may let you off the first time because you're new maybe. But the second time they'll sock it to you, give you a couple of days in the Hole, then throw you in Number Two.

2. (slang, transitive) To throw.

• sock away
• sock in
• sockdolager

French soc, Late Latin soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.

sock (plural socks)

1. A ploughshare.
   • D. Brewster, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia

     In Wexford, the beam is shorter than in any of the other counties, and the sock in general is of cast iron.

sock (plural socks)

1. (computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.

sock c

1. sock

• socka
• strumpa

• sock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)