Middle English Dictionary Entry
sok n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | sok n.(1) Also sok(k)e, socke. |
| Etymology | OE socc; ult. L soccus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A kind of light shoe or slipper; also, a sock, stocking.
Associated quotations
- c1330 Why werre (Auch)146 : Hii weren sockes in here shon, and felted botes above.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)61a/a : Soctus [Hrl 1738: Soccus]: a sok.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)462 : Socke [Win: Sokke]: Soccus.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)427 : Thay goon al bare abouue þe foote and by-nethe double With smale semyd sockes and of softe wolle.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Kath.Sienna (Dc 114)188/2 : Þe holy virgyn come in to þe chapil wiþ-oute shoes, allonly wiþ sokkes.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)99/25 : He..mad menes on-to hem þat were dwellyng with Gilbert, þat he myte haue a peyre of old sokkys, or pinsones, whech our maystir had often wered.
- (a1474) Paston (EETS)2.362 : Item, iiij payre of sokkes.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)895 : Drawe on his sokkis & hosyn by the fure.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)116b : A Soke: Soccus, pedana, pedula.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)601/21 : A pynson, or a sok [glossing Dict.: Pedulus].