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Miller vs Soc - What's the difference?

miller | soc |

As nouns the difference between miller and soc

is that miller is a person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill while soc is (slang|uncountable) sociology or social science or soc can be (uk|legal|obsolete) the lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

miller

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • for a miller.
  • See also

    * Millward

    soc

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science
  • (slang, countable) upper class youth
  • * 1967 , , The Outsiders , page 2:
  • We get jumped by the Socs . I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.
    Alternative forms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * sock, soke

    Noun

  • (UK, legal, obsolete) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
  • (UK, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
  • (UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.
  • Derived terms
    * soc and sac (Webster 1913)

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