soccasin

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English

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Etymology

Blend of sock +‎ moccasin

Noun

soccasin (plural soccasins)

  1. A hybrid sock-moccasin footwear.
    • 1960, Aileen Fisher, edited by Adrienne Adams, Going Barefoot, illustrated edition, Crowell, →ISBN:
      How soon how soon is a day in June when I won't wear shoes on a bright forenoon, won't wear moccasins, won't wear sockasins, only my feet-like kangaroos. KANGAROOS! Can you picture shoes on KANGAROOS
    • 1997 March 1, Spider Robinson, chapter 3, in Lifehouse, Baen, →ISBN, page 56:
      Wally's parachute pants and sockasins were just too weird for his persona, too memorable should certain questions ever be asked.
    • 2003 June 17, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, Volume 1271, Issue 3, volume 1271, number 3, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 332:
      SOCCASINS FOR HYBRID OF SOCK AND MOCCASIN FOR CHILDREN (U.S. CLS. 22 AND 39).
    • 2014 April 1, John Brunner, “Seventy-four No Entry”, in The Jagged Orbit, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
      There was an interlude during which they walked along side by side without talking, Lyla shrouded in he yash and sockasins so that none of her skin showed, and they were able to make it along the sidewalk without trouble because other people took it for granted she too was knee.
    • 2018 May 15, John Brunner, chapter 70, in The John Brunner Collection Volume One: The Sheep Look Up, The Crucible of Time, and The Jagged Orbit, volume 1, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
      “That's exactly what I want,” she said gratefully. “To make things seem normal, just for a while, even though I know they aren't and never will be again. Look, let's go eat right awayso I don't hold you up for too long. I'll get my yash and put on some sockasins so nobody can tell I'm blank walking along the street, and I know some restaurants that don't mind mixed clientele.”
    • 2021 April 19, Daren Kay, The Brightonians, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN:
      Hearing Ken sloshing in the bath, she quickly located her soccasins and made her way downstairs to plan the finer details of her post-funeral gathering. Post. Funeral. Gathering. Just the mere sound of it was delicious to Izzy. And with her head swirling with images of ancient druid rituals, she merrily set up her laptop on the kitchen table.
    • 2023 November 9, Fritz Leiber, chapter 1, in Erik Schreiber, editor, The Green Millennium, volume 18, Good Press, →ISBN:
      Ususally his whip-cracking reflexes had him out of bed in a flash and jerking on his shorts and sockasins while he frantically hunted around for the jar of beard-dissolving cream.