sock-shop

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tuck shop. slang
    — No wonder that the old Etonian's heart still warms when he catches sight of the walls of College […] Windsor Bridge, Mother Tolliday, […] the "ticks-up-town," the sock-shop, the triumphs on the water, won with sculls and oar […]

词形变化

sock-shops plural

词源

Hotten's Slang Dictionary gives sock as "the Eton College term for a treat […] believed to be derived from the monkish word soke."
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