Other forms: socks
A sock is the soft thing you wear on your foot inside a shoe. Bought in pairs, and lost in the wash one at a time.
English has a great deal of affection for them, and odd socks, sock drawers and Christmas socks are all familiar. The word has an informal verb sense meaning to hit, as in socked him in the jaw, and from that comes sock it to them, meaning give a bold performance. There is also the blunt instruction put a sock in it, which means be quiet.
1nounsockA soft covering for the foot worn inside a shoe.
“He had a hole in one sock.”
Also accepted in games: socks
Ancient Greek
σύκχος — a kind of shoe
Latin
soccus — a light shoe or slipper, buskin
Old English
socc — sock, light shoe, slipper
Middle English
socke
English, today
sock
From Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a gmw - borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (“a kind of shoe”), probably from xpg - or from an ine-ana - language. Beekes compares ae 𐬵𐬀𐬑𐬀 (“sole of the foot”). Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian foetsok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), German Socke (“sock”), Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”). a doublet of zocco; also related to zoccolo, socle, and zocalo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA