Abbreviation ofsociology social
soc (countable anduncountable plural socs
( slang , uncountable ) Sociology orsocial science .( slang , countable ) Upper class youth .1967 S. E. Hinton ,The Outsiders We get jumped by theSocs . I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.
Clipping ofsociety
soc (plural socs
( UK , university slang ) society ( circle, club, interest group ) .Are you part of anysocs this year?
-soc ( society-name-forming suffix ) FromMiddle English soke sok soc Old English sōcn soke
soc (uncountable
( UK , law , historical ) lord 's power orprivilege of holding acourt in adistrict , as inmanor orlordship ;jurisdiction ofcauses , and the limits of that jurisdiction.Synonym: soke 1869 Commentaries on the History, Constitution, and Chartered Franchises of the City of London , page96 :As proprietors of thesoc , 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 A Concise History of the Common Law , page96 :Doubts have recently been cast upon Maitland's view that the Anglo-Saxon "sac andsoc " included the right to hold a petty court, to compel tenants to attend it, and to take profits from it.
( UK , obsolete ) millers ofgrinding all thecorn used within the manor or township in which themill stands.Comparesoca ( “ trunk ” ) .
soc m plural socs
stump ( of a tree ) block ( of an anvil ) block ,chock ( for preventing movement of a wheel ) Inherited fromLatin soccus ( “ slipper ” ) . CompareSpanish zueco
soc m plural socs
clog ( wooden shoe ) Synonym: esclop shoe ( of a brake ) Borrowed fromArabic سُوق ( sūq ,“ market ” ) .
soc m or f plural socs
souq FromLatin sum (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium . Particularly: “Is there an etymological source for the final /k/?”)
soc
first-person singular present indicative ofser first-person singular present indicative ofésser soc m plural socs
( dialectal ) Alternative form ofsolc ( “ furrow; groove ” ) From clipping ofEnglish soc iety
soc
( Hong Kong Cantonese , university slang ) society FromVulgar Latin *soccus Gaulish Proto-Celtic *sukkos ( literally“ pig's snout ” ) (compareMiddle Irish socc Welsh swch ( “ plowshare ” ) ), fromProto-Indo-European *suH-
soc m plural socs
plowshare ( butchery ) Boston butt FromMiddle Irish socc ( “ pig’s snout ” ) , fromProto-Celtic *sukkos ( “ pig ” ) (compareWelsh hwch Proto-Indo-European *suH-
soc m genitive singular soic nominative plural soic
snout ,muzzle ( of an animal ) nozzle the projecting end of something, such as:soc camáintoe of a hurley soc eitleáin, roicéid, báid srl.nose of an airplane, rocket, boat etc. soc céachtaplowshare soc inneonachhorn of an anvil Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
“soc ”, inHistorical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 , Royal Irish Academy Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “soc ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904 ) “soc”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla , 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page666 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “soc ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN Quiggin, E. C. (1906 )A Dialect of Donegal 39 sōc
first / third-person singular preterite indicative ofsacan FromProto-West Germanic *sokk
soc m
sock Onomatopoeic .
soc
pow ( the sound of a punch ) Inherited fromLatin sabūcus sambūcus
soc m plural soci
elder ( plant ) Clipping ofsocialtjänsten ( “ the social services ” ) .
soc
( colloquial ) social services Synonym: socialtjänsten Clipping ofsocialbidrag ( “ welfare ” ) .
soc
( colloquial ) welfare (government financial assistance)Synonym: socialbidrag 
