sosh

UK/səʊʃ/US/soʊʃ/

sosh noun: a social security number. Also the abbreviation of various terms beginning.

Noun (1)

sosh (plural soshes)

(slang) A social security number.
- He handed her a paper with Erik Last's DOB and Visa card number. "This guy wouldn't give me his sosh." His social security number.2003, Michael Allen Dymmoch, The Feline Friendship, Macmillan, page 33
(slang) Social studies.
- “I mean he's crazy about me . Whoa - h - h !” She lowed like a cow in heat . “ “How do you know ?” “Well , in sosh class — you know , social studies —” Mr . Kurland goes , “Today we're having a surprise QQ .”1986, Marilyn Gould, The Twelfth of June, Lippincott, page 10
- She'd let him think it was over for a while, but I knew she'd be on him again at noon, or spreading the word in the back of Social Studies; Mrs. Lehmann, the Sosh teacher, couldn't see the back of the room very well.1995, Bernice Friesen, The Seasons are Horses, Thistledown Press, page 37

sosh (plural soshes)

(Scotland, slang) A co-op.
- Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, .... Willie Todd, the best man, ... slipped through the back window ... and making a bolt for it to the "'Sosh," was back in a moment with a handful of small change.
  Barrie's usage is annotated in Hammerton, cited below.1888, J. M. Barrie, Auld Licht Idylls, Hodder and Stoughton, page 77
- An' as I thocht that a wee hair o' pepper would help to gie the gruel a gude flavour, I opened ane o' the wee bits o' pockies that had been brocht by Marget on the Saturday frae the Sosh an' put in a grain o' its contents.1896, Alick Blair, Rantin Robin & Marget: With Other Scottish Sketches & Homely Rhymes, Arbroath: T. Buncle & Company, page 82

sosh is also the abbreviation of various terms beginning.

Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.1897, Fergus Mackenzie, Sprays of Northern Pine, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, page 110:
In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh[.]”1900, Sir John Alexander Hammerton, J. M. Barrie and his books: biographical and critical studies, Horace Marshall and Sons, page 248:

plural	soshes

Short for association store.

What does sosh mean?: Sosh means a social security number.
How do you use sosh in a sentence?: Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.
What part of speech is sosh?: Sosh is a noun.
How do you pronounce sosh?: Sosh is pronounced /səʊʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of sosh?: The plural of sosh is soshes.

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