soc

Abbreviation of sociology and social.

• (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

Clipping of society.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɑk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

soc (plural socs)

1. (UK, university slang) A society (circle, club, interest group).

   Are you part of any socs this year?

• -soc (society-name-forming suffix)

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.

   Synonym: soke

   • 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.

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, sac and soc

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

Compare soca (“trunk”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔk]

soc m (plural socs)

1. stump (of a tree)
2. block (of an anvil)
3. block, chock (for preventing movement of a wheel)

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔk]

soc m (plural socs)

1. clog (wooden shoe)

   Synonym: esclop

2. shoe (of a brake)

Borrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”).

• assoc

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔk]

soc m or f (plural socs)

1. souq

From Latin sum. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is there an etymological source for the final /k/?”)

• sóc (pre-2016)
• so (archaic or dialectal)
• só (archaic or dialectal, pre-2016)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsok]

soc

1. first-person singular present indicative of ser
2. first-person singular present indicative of ésser

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsok]

soc m (plural socs)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of solc (“furrow; groove”)

• “soc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “soc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “soc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “soc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• 嫂, (in compounds) so

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 usage 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”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (“pig”) (compare Welsh hwch), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

• IPA^(key): /sˠɔk/^[2]

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
• 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

• IPA^(key): /soːk/

sōc

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of sacan

From Proto-West Germanic *sokk.

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)

Inherited from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

• IPA^(key): /sok/
• Rhymes: -ok

soc m (plural soci)

1. elder (plant)

• socată

Clipping of socialtjänsten (“the social services”).

soc

1. (colloquial) the social services

   Synonym: socialtjänsten

• socfall

Clipping of socialbidrag (“welfare”).

soc

1. (colloquial) welfare (government financial assistance)

   Synonym: socialbidrag

   gå på soc

   live on welfare

• soc in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)