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Antonyms for sock

Grammar : Verb
Spell : sok
Phonetic Transcription : sÉ’k

Definition of sock

Origin :
  • "knitted or woven covering for the foot, short stocking," early 14c., from Old English socc "slipper, light shoe," from Latin soccus "slipper, light low-heeled shoe," probably a variant of Greek sykchos, word for a kind of shoe, perhaps from Phrygian or another Asiatic language. The Latin word was borrowed generally in West Germanic, e.g. Middle Dutch socke, Dutch sok, Old High German soc, German Socke. To knock the socks off (someone) "beat thoroughly" is recorded from 1845, American English colloquial. Teen slang sock hop is c.1950, from notion of dancing without shoes.
  • verb hit hard
Example sentences :
  • But how was this difficult matter of sock and stocking to be settled?
  • Extract from : « Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First » by Sarah L Barrow
  • Who welcome with the crowing of a cock, This hero of the buskin and sock.
  • Extract from : « Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. » by Pierce Egan
  • Well, you could call it that, but the cop of the beach said it was more like a baby's sock.
  • Extract from : « Jill the Reckless » by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  • Jim's mother looked thoughtfully at the sock she was darning.
  • Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow
  • At least we could never finish a sock unless Mother helped us, and then she would know.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various
  • He was bootless and a great toe protruded from a hole in the point of his sock.
  • Extract from : « The Gold Girl » by James B. Hendryx
  • In the Field no man has actual possession of shirt, sock, or under-garments.
  • Extract from : « Norman Ten Hundred » by A. Stanley Blicq
  • Is sock only a corruption of suck, indicating a lollipop origin?
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 » by Various
  • I go around, one by one, and sock the four guards on the back of the head.
  • Extract from : « The Common Man » by Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
  • We found John seated on the bank, taking off his boot and sock.
  • Extract from : « On the Banks of the Amazon » by W.H.G. Kingston

Synonyms for sock

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