sock

Meanings

Noun

• A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
• A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors.
• A cat's or dog's lower leg that is a different color (usually white) from the color pattern on the rest of the animal.
• A sock puppet.
• A gun sock.
• A violent blow; a punch.
• A ploughshare.
• Abbreviation of socket

Verb

• To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.
• To throw.

Adjective

• Extremely successful.

Related

Similar words

• socko

Origin

• Image:Scannedsocks.jpg|thumb|right|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 ("a kind of shoe"), probably from Phrygian or from an language. Cognate with Scots sok ("sock, stocking"), West Frisian foetsok ("sock"), Dutch sok ("sock"), German Socke ("sock"), Danish sok, sokke, Swedish sock, socka, Icelandic sokkur ("sock").
• Onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").
• From French soc, from Late Latin soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.
• From socket.