Sock

Definition: Sock

Sock

Noun

1. Hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee.

2. A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.

Verb

1. Hit hard.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Personal Care & Hotels

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sock

Clothing

Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery.

The Drama

Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.

Velocity

Log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer.

Wind

Anemography, aerodynamics; wind gauge, vane, weather-vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope.

Crosswords: Sock

Manx (bow, horn of anvil, jet, mould-board, nose, nozzle, ploughshare, rose, share, snout, toe).

Over-the-calf socks look better when you're dressed because there's no gap between trouser and sock when you cross your legs (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Sock puppets (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You should try my sock drawer (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

Remember that time we danced at the sock hop (Can't Hardly Wait; writing credit: Deborah Kaplan; Harry Elfont)

How old is that sock? If I had a sock in my hand for thirty years it'd be talking too. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

A little respect sock it to me, sock it to me, ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

Oh sock it to me, sock it to me, ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

Sock it to me, sock it to me ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

Give me the gift of a grip top sock: a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock. (references; author: unknown)

Sock a Doodle Do (1952)

Never Sock a Baby (1939)

Sock Me to Sleep (1935)

The Sock Exchange (1928)

Odd Sock (2000)

Sock It To Me, Baby (performing artist: Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Me by Me: The Pets.com Sock Puppet Book (reference)

• Sock Monkey: A Children's Book (reference)

• Sock Monkey's Family Reunion (reference)

• The Adventures of Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey (reference)

• Tiger's Vacation (Sock Animals, includes sock and book for creating animals)) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Don Cherry's All New Rock 'em Sock 'em Hockey (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 60's Sock Hop (reference)

• One Sock Missing (reference)

• The Real Sock Ray Blue (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• I845 SOCK PGA478 MAX-3GBAGP4X (reference)

• SOYO MBB 7VBA SOYO ATX SOCK 370 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

London Character Shoes, business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. View to sock and belt display. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "sock": air sock ♦ ankle sock ♦ athletic sock ♦ knee sock ♦ put a sock in it ♦ put a sock in it! ♦ put on the sock ♦ sock away ♦ sock in ♦ sock plug ♦ sock puppet ♦ sock smb. ♦ sweat sock ♦ varsity sock ♦ wind sock. Additional references.

Beginning with "sock": sock-clad, sock-drawer, sock-it-to-em, sock-it-to-'em, sock-it-to-him, sock-laden, sock-like, sock-maker, sock-makers, sock-suspenders, sock-washing.

Ending with "sock": bobby-sock, knee-sock, white-sock, wind-sock.

Containing "sock": dirty-sock-washing.

Afrikaans

sokkie. (various references)

Albanian

goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clean and jerk, clip, dash, dint, drive, fib, flap, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), gjurmashkë (light shoe), astar këpuce, çorap, ëmbëlsira (confectionery, lollipops, sweetmeats, sweet-stuff). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نعل (insole, shoe, shoehorn, sole, tread), ‏لكمة (belt, chap, jab, knocking, punch, swing, swipe, uppercut, wallop), ‏لكم (box, bust, knock, punch, slug, strike, to you, yours), ‏ضربة (bang, beating, belt, biff, blow, bob, bump, chap, clout, hurt, inflexion, infliction, lash, pelt, plug, pulse, shot, smack, strike, stroke, tank, thrust, wipe), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏صغعة, ‏جورب صغير, ‏جورب (hose, hosiery, socks, stocking), ‏رسغ الفرس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стелка за обувка, сандал на комически актьор, силен удар (biff, clip, lick, plunk, slog, slosh, smacker, smasher, stinger, swipe, thump, wallop, welt, welter, whammy, whang, whop), хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), цапардосвам (plump, poke, slam, slosh), къс чорап (anklet), комедия (act, comedy, farce, interlude, riot), ветропоказател (vane, weather vane, weathercock), мъжки чорап, запращам (aim, dash, drive, hurl, leg it, pitch, project, send, smash, speed, throw, whirl). (various references)

Chinese 

袜子 (SOCKS), 短襪 . (various references)

Cornish

pawgen. (various references)

Czech

rána (bang, bash, biff, blow, bounce, clout, hit, knock, rap, report, shock, shot, slap, slash, strike, stroke, swipe, whack, whang, wound), ponožka, podkolenka (half hose), herda. (various references)

Danish

sok (half-length sock). (various references)

Dutch

sok (ankle sock, anklet, bobby-sock, half-length sock). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝtrumpeto. (various references)

Farsi 

مشت زدن یکراست , کفش راحتی بی پاشنه , ضربه (Brunt, Hack, Hew, Hook, Impact, Lash, Pelt, Strike, Stroke, Thud, Whop), ضربت زدن (Bob, Hammer, Inflict, Jow, Strike), جوراب پوشیدن , جوراب ساقه کوتاه , درست (Accurate, Authentic, Conscionable, Correct, Entire, Even, Exact, Genuine, Integral, Just, Legitimate, Orthodox, Outandout, Perfect, Plumb, Right, Smackdab, Sound, Straight, Straightforward, True, Trustworthy, Upright, Valid, Veracious, Whole). (various references)

Finnish

sukka (hose, stocking), puolisukka. (various references)

French

chaussette. (various references)

Frisian

fuotsok. (various references)

German

Socke (sox). (various references)

Greek 

κάλτσα (hose, stocking). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'רב (hose, stocking). (various references)

Hungarian

zokni (socks, sox). (various references)

Icelandic

sokkur. (various references)

Indonesian

kaus kaki, kaos (singlet, stocking, undershirt). (various references)

Irish

stoca gearr. (various references)

Italian

picchiare (batter, beat, belt, come to blows, cuff, fight, hit, knock, slap, slat, slug, strike, tap, thump, whack), calzino (ankle sock, anklet, bobby-sock, half-length sock). (various references)

Korean 

양말 (hosiery, SOCKS). (various references)

Malay

kaus. (various references)

Manx

oashyr veg, mynoashyr. (various references)

Maori

tookena. (various references)

Norwegian

sokk. (various references)

Papago

kal-sihtho. (various references)

Papiamen

meya (stocking), meña (stocking), mea (stocking). (various references)

Pig Latin

ocksay.(various references)

Portuguese

peúga (anklet), meia (stocking). (various references)

Romanian

comedie (comedy, device, drollery, farce, sham, trick), ciorap (hose, hosiery, stocking), brodechin, branţ, şosetã, în plin. (various references)

Russian 

носок (sox, toe). (various references)

Sepedi

kaua
o. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sokna, čarapa (stocking). (various references)

Sicilian

quasetta. (various references)

Spanish

calcetín (anklet). (various references)

Swedish

strumpa (stocking), socka, kort strumpa. (various references)

Thai

ถุงเท้า, ตีอย่างแรง (shock, slug, swipe, swot). (various references)

Turkish

soket çorap, soket (anklesock, anklet, socket), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, chop, crack, crusher, cut, hack, hit, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), tokatlamak (box, cuff, slap, smack, swindle, swipe, trick out of), tokat atmak (buffet, catch, slap in the face), tokat (box, buffet, clout, cuff, lick, slap, slap in the face, smack, wipe, wiper), mantar taban, kısa çorap (anklesock, anklet, bobby socks, half hose), dayak (bashing, basting, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rod, rubdown, the works, thrashing, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), ayakkabı keçesi, çorap (footwear, hose, stocking). (various references)

Ukrainian

устілка (insole, slipsole), сандаля, шкарпетка (vamp), надівати шкарпетки. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tập trung sức lực, gắng sức (spurt), cái thoi, cái thụi, đúng v� o (dead). (various references)

soccus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sock": sockdolager, sockdolagers, sockdologer, sockdologers, socked, socket, socketed, socketing, sockets, sockeye, sockeyes, socking, sockless, sockman, sockmen, socko, socks. (additional references)

Words ending with "sock": cassock, hassock, kneesock, tussock, windsock. (additional references)

Words containing "sock": cassocks, hassocks, kneesocks, tussocks, tussocky, windsocks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Escc, Gock, oscr, Osk, Osmc, scc, scek, sco, sconk, scov, Seck, Secka, Seoc, sicki, sicko, sioc, siok, slc, smck, soca, soce, soch, soci, socko, Socs, soec, sok, solk, sonk, sook, sork, sotk, spock, spoock, srock, succ, sucj, sucky, sukc, wock, zoc, zok, zuck. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cos, kos.

-2 letters: os, so.

+1 letter: bocks, cokes, conks, cooks, corks, docks, hocks, jocks, locks, mocks, nocks, pocks, rocks, shock, sicko, smock, socko, socks, stock, yocks.

+2 letters: blocks, brocks, buckos, chocks, chokes, chooks, cloaks, clocks, clonks, croaks, crocks, crooks, flocks, frocks, geckos, hoicks, jockos, knocks, ockers, shacko, shlock, shocks, sickos, smocks, socked, socket, stocks, stocky, trocks, wackos, yoicks.