socking
adverb
[ ˈsɒkɪŋ ]
• used for emphasis.
• "a socking great diamond"
sock
verb
• hit forcefully.
• "Jess socked his father across the face"
Origin:
Old English socc ‘light shoe’, of Germanic origin, from Latin soccus ‘comic actor's shoe, light low-heeled slipper’, from Greek sukkhos .
