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socksies

socksies noun: socks.

Noun

socksies pl (plural only)

  1. (childish, plural, plural-only) Socks.
    • BUT HIS SOCKSIES WILL NEVER BE SPATS / Roy: You say Winks is ultra-collegiate? / Clyde: Yeh. He shows a complete reaction from plain collegiateness. He’s even wearing garters again.—Ohio Sun Dial.1924 November 15, I. M. Becile [pseudonym], “Wit and Half-Wit”, in Maurice Ellington, editor, The Centenary Conglomerate, volume 15, number 7, Shreveport, La.: Centenary College, page 4, column 3
    • Midges and flies, / Midges and flies / Crawl up my nose, / Down my bra, in my eyes, / They’re driving me crazy, / These flysies and midges. / They’re into my socksies / And into my britches.1992, Thelma Barlow, “Coping with Pests and Diseases”, in Organic Gardening with Love, London: Robson Books Ltd, published 1994, →ISBN, page 145

Origin of socksies

From sock + -sies.

Questions about socksies

What does socksies mean?
Socksies means socks.
What part of speech is socksies?
Socksies is a noun.

Words near socksies in the dictionary

  1. socks away
  2. socks in
  3. socks into
  4. socks it
  5. socksful
  6. socksies
  7. sockwear
  8. Sockwell
  9. Sockwells
  10. socky
  11. socle

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