sock-shop

== English == === Etymology === Hotten's Slang Dictionary gives sock as "the Eton College term for a treat […] believed to be derived from the monkish word soke." === Noun === sock-shop (plural sock-shops) (Eton College, slang) A tuck shop. 1900, George John Whyte-Melville, ‎Sir Herbert Maxwell, The Works of G. J. Whyte-Melville (volume 14, page 2) 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 […] ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary