soc

From sociology.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səʊʃ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /soʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃ
• Homophone: sosh

soc (countable and uncountable, plural socs)

1. (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
2. (slang, countable) Upper class youth.
   • 1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, page 2:

     We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.

• Soc

From Middle English soke, sok, soc, from Old English sōcn. More at soke.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɑk/

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• Homophone: sock

soc (uncountable)

1. (UK, law, historical) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
   • 1869, George Norton, Commentaries on the History, Constitution, and Chartered Franchises of the City of London, page 96:

     As proprietors of the soc, the lords claimed a great number of fees and perquisites, payable by all classes of people, whether free or servile, who negotiated any affairs within the soc, and which no doubt formed in themselves a considerable source of revenue.

   • 2001, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law, page 96:

     Doubts have recently been cast upon Maitland's view that the Anglo-Saxon "sac and soc" included the right to hold a petty court, to compel tenants to attend it, and to take profits from it.

   Synonym: soke

2. (UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.

• soc and sac

• 'cos, CSO, Cos, OCS, OCs, OSC, SCO, co's, cos, cos.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔk/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

soc

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of sóc

Compare soca (“trunk”).

soc m (plural socs)

1. stump

Latin soccus (“slipper”). Compare Spanish zueco.

soc m (plural socs)

1. clog

   Synonym: esclop

soc m or f (plural socs)

1. souq

• “soc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “soc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “soc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

• so (in compounds)

From clipping of English society.

soc

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) society

   • 去到逸夫，現場有二十幾人企喺度，清一色嘅Soc Tee，擺明係唔知咩莊散會或者散活動。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     去到逸夫，现场有二十几人企喺度，清一色嘅Soc Tee，摆明系唔知咩庄散会或者散活动。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2018, 白告, 我的你的紅的 Taxi 2, page 110

     heoi³ dou³ jat⁶ fu¹, jin⁶ coeng⁴ jau⁵ ji⁶ sap⁶ gei² jan⁴ kei⁵ hai² dou⁶, cing¹ jat¹ sik¹ ge³ sou² ti¹, baai² ming⁴ hai⁶ m⁴ zi¹ me¹ zong¹ saan³ wui⁵ waak⁶ ze² saan³ wut⁶ dung⁶. [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

From Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (literally “pig's snout”) (compare Middle Irish socc, Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

• IPA^(key): /sɔk/

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soc m (plural socs)

1. plowshare
2. (butchery) Boston butt

• “soc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Cos

From Middle Irish socc (“pig’s snout”), from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (“pig”) (compare Welsh hwch), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

• IPA^(key): /sˠɔk/

soc m (genitive singular soic, nominative plural soic)

1. snout, muzzle (of an animal)
2. nozzle
3. the projecting end of something, such as:

   soc camáin ― toe of a hurley

   soc eitleáin, roicéid, báid srl. ― nose of an airplane, rocket, boat etc.

   soc céachta ― plowshare

   soc inneonach ― horn of an anvil

• “soc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “soc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “soc”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 666
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “soc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz (whence also Old English socc, Old Norse sokkr), from Latin soccus.

soc m

1. sock

• Middle High German: soc, socke
  • Alemannic German: Sock, Socke, Sockä, Socka
  • Central Franconian: Sock
  • German: Socke (see there for further descendants)
  • Vilamovian: zok

Onomatopoeic.

soc

1. pow (the sound of a punch)

From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

• IPA^(key): /sok/
• Rhymes: -ok

soc m (plural soci)

1. elder (plant)

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