different between sock vs bock

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

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 ?????? (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an 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”).

Noun

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 cat's or dog's lower leg that is a different color (usually white) from the color pattern on the rest of the animal.

   Synonym: mitten

4. (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A sock puppet.
5. (firearms, informal) A gun sock.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: socquette
  • ? Portuguese: soquete
• Japanese: ???? (sokkusu) < socks
• Swahili: soksi < socks (plural)

Translations

Etymology 2

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.

Alternative forms

• (W. Eng. dial.): zock

Adjective

sock (not comparable)

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

     Sock performance on a catchy rhythm ditty with infectious tempo.

Synonyms

• socko

Noun

sock (plural socks)

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

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• sock away
• sock in
• sockdolager

Translations

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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.

Etymology 4

From socket.

Noun

sock (plural socks)

1. (computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.

Swedish

Noun

sock c

1. sock

Declension

See also

• socka
• strumpa

References

• sock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From German Bockbier.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophones: balk, bok

Noun

bock (countable and uncountable, plural bocks)

1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

French

Noun

bock m (plural bocks)

1. a beer glass having the capacity of approximately a quarter of a litre
2. the content of such a beer glass

Related terms

• sous-bock

Further reading

• “bock” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish boc, poc, pocc (“he-goat”) (compare Irish boc).

Noun

bock m (genitive singular bock, plural buick)

1. buck, male (of animals)
2. gelding

Derived terms

• bock goayr (“billygoat”)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “poc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bukker, bokker, from Old Norse bokkr, bukkr, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz‚ from Proto-Indo-European *b?u?no-, *b?ukkos, *b?ugkó-.

Noun

bock c

1. a buck; the male of goat and deer
2. the tick mark (?), indicating incorrectness in Swedish schoolbooks
3. a sawhorse
4. a mount for a (roller) bearing
5. a bend or fold of sheet metal
6. a tool to bend or fold sheet metal
7. leapfrog is called hoppa bock
8. a gymnastics tool for leapfrogging

Declension

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