sock

Definitions


[sɒk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a garment for the foot and lower part of the leg, typically knitted from wool, cotton, or nylon

- a hard blow
(e.g: a sock on the jaw)


Phrases:
- bless someone's cotton socks
- knock someone's socks off
- knock the socks off
- pull one's socks up
- put a sock in it
- sock and buskin
- sock it to someone
- — one's socks off

Origin:
Old English socc ‘light shoe’, of Germanic origin, from Latin soccus ‘comic actor's shoe, light low-heeled slipper’, from Greek sukkhos


[sɒk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- hit forcefully
(e.g: Jess socked his father across the face)


Phrases:
- bless someone's cotton socks
- knock someone's socks off
- knock the socks off
- pull one's socks up
- put a sock in it
- sock and buskin
- sock it to someone
- — one's socks off

Origin:
Old English socc ‘light shoe’, of Germanic origin, from Latin soccus ‘comic actor's shoe, light low-heeled slipper’, from Greek sukkhos




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