# sosh
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /səʊʃ/
* (US) IPA: /soʊʃ/
* Rhymes: -əʊʃ
* Homophone: soc

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

sosh (plural soshes)
* (slang) Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.
** 1928, Will Irwin, Herbert Hoover A Reminiscent Biography, The Century Company, page 50:In Hoover's second year there rose a prophet of the "barbs" or non-fraternity men whose appropriate name was Zion. His constant tilting against things as they are gave him the nickname of "Sosh" short for Socialist.
** 1981, Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Simon and Schuster, page 43:This, more than anything else, was the true sign of a high school social climber known as the “sosh.” The teeth-baring sosh (long o) began as a glimmer in the eye.
** 2009, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Political Ducks: Lucky, Lame, and Dead, Xlibris, page 241:Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department […] “Sosh,” as the academic department was called […]
** 2009, Sean Scalmer, “‘for the sake of a straight out fight’: The Free Traders and the Puzzle of the Fusion”, in Paul Strangio, Nicholas Dyrenfurth, editors, Confusion: The Making of the Australian Two-Party System, Melbourne University Press, page 87:In the face of Reid's prominent ‘anti-Sosh’ campaign (in reality an attempt to wedge Deakin's supporters), Labor held its ground in the 1906 election […]
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:sosh.
** (slang) A social security number.
*** 2003, Michael Allen Dymmoch, The Feline Friendship, Macmillan, page 33: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.
** (slang) Social studies.
*** 1986, Marilyn Gould, The Twelfth of June, Lippincott, page 10:“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 .”
*** 1995, Bernice Friesen, The Seasons are Horses, Thistledown Press, page 37: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.

##### Derived terms

* sosh meed

### Etymology 2

Short for association store.

#### Noun

sosh (plural soshes)
* (Scotland, slang) A co-op.
** 1888, J. M. Barrie, Auld Licht Idylls, Hodder and Stoughton, page 77: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.
** 1896, Alick Blair, Rantin Robin & Marget: With Other Scottish Sketches & Homely Rhymes, Arbroath: T. Buncle & Company, page 82: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.
** 1897, Fergus Mackenzie, Sprays of Northern Pine, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, page 110:Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.
** 1900, Sir John Alexander Hammerton, J. M. Barrie and his books: biographical and critical studies, Horace Marshall and Sons, page 248:In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh[.]”

### References

* Joseph Wright, editor (1904), The English Dialect Dictionary, volume R-S, page 625
    (Entry on sosh, including verbal and adverbial meanings.)

### Anagrams

* Hoss, Sohs, hoss, shos, sohs