bobby sox

[bob-ee-soks]

bob·by·socks

[bob-ee-soks]
plural noun
1.
socks that reach above the ankle and are sometimes folded down to the ankle.
adjective
2.
indicating or associated with the wearing of bobbysocks; adolescent: strictly a bobbysocks crowd; the bobbysocks generation.

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Bobby sox is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Also, bob·by·sox, bobby socks, bobby sox, bob·sox.


Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; bobby (for bobbed, altered by association with bobby pin) + socks1
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