different between sock vs tabi

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 Japanese ?? (tabi, “foot pouch”).

Noun

tabi (plural tabis or tabi)

1. Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe.

Anagrams

• IBAT, a bit, bait, bati

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.bi?/

Particle

tabi

1. marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing

   Dagos tabi kamo. - Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.

   Maduman tabi ako sa simbahan, Nanay. - I am going to church, Mother.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?bi

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

tabi

1. chitchat
2. talk; empty boasting, promises or claims
3. a rumor; a statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth
4. gossip; idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present

Verb

tabi

1. to talk; to communicate, usually by means of speech
2. to criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself
3. to chitchat
4. to gossip

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Interjection

tabi

1. excuse me
2. go away
3. a customary expression to excuse oneself from spirits or ghosts so as to avoid offending or injuring them, used especially when passing through or entering an unfamiliar, wooded or haunted place

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tabi.

Anagrams

• bati

Dupaningan Agta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.?bi/

Noun

tabí

1. fat; oil

Derived terms

• matabi

Japanese

Romanization

tabi

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

t?b?

1. dative singular of t?b?s

Tagalog

Noun

tabí

1. space, place, or position beside or near a person or thing
2. act of taking a position near or beside another
3. act of staying or passing along the side or border of (a road, river, etc.)
4. edge; border

Volapük

Noun

tabi

1. accusative singular of tab

Yoruba

Conjunction

tàbí

1. Alternative form of àbí