socked

1. 1
   verbslang

   Simple past and past participle of sock.

   The boxer socked his opponent with a sharp right hook in the second round.

   He got socked in the jaw during the bar fight.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty for the slang verb of hitting or throwing: she socked him is the simple past, he was socked or has socked the participle. The verb is transitive, so the form needs an object or a passive, and the slang keeps it out of formal prose. The fixed phrase socked in (fog-bound) uses the participle. The same spelling also serves the "wearing socks" adjective, so context decides between a blow and a foot.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having a sock or socks on the feet; not barefoot.

   The children ran around the playroom in socked feet, having left their shoes at the door.

   He shuffled across the kitchen, his socked feet silent on the tiles.

   Similarstockinged

   Oppositebare

   Note

   One of a family of adjectives made from the name of a garment: gloved, scarfed, booted. New Writing Scotland (1985) strings four of them together in a single list, socked among them. It sits most naturally in such lists or before feet. It is not comparable. A foot is socked or it is not, so more socked does not occur.

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