- sock (n.)
- Old English socc "light slipper," a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus "light low-heeled shoe," variant of Greek sykchos "a kind of shoe," perhaps from Phrygian or another Asiatic language. To knock the socks off (someone) "beat thoroughly" is recorded from 1845, American English colloquial. Teen slang sock hop is c.1950, from notion of dancing without shoes.
- sock (v.2)
- "to stash (money) away as savings," 1942, American English, from the notion of hiding one's money in a sock (see sock (n.)).
- sock (v.1)
- 1700, "to beat, hit," of uncertain origin. To sock it to (someone) first recorded 1877.