stocking

stocking

See also: Stocking

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
• Homophone: stalking (with cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From stock (“cover with material”) +‎ -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.

A pair of nylon stockings.

Noun

stocking (plural stockings)

1. A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.

   a pair of stockings

2. A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
3. A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

Usage notes

• Stocking may refer either to men's socks or to women's hose, but rarely to socks when worn by women. However, this usage appears somewhat variable.

Derived terms

terms derived from stocking (noun)

• bluestocking
• overstocking
• stockinger
• stocking filler
• stocking-maker
• stocking stuffer
• surgical stocking
• understocking

Descendants

• → Scottish Gaelic: stocainn

Translations

garment (for translations of "sock", see sock)

Albanian: çorape f, çorap (sq) m Arabic: جَوْرَب‎ m (jawrab) (pl: جَوَارِب‎ m pl (jawārib)) Azerbaijani: corab (az) Bashkir: ойоҡ (oyoq) Basque: galtzerdi (eu) Belarusian: панчо́ха f (pančóxa) Bengali: মোজা (bn) (moja) Bulgarian: (дълъг) чора́п m ((dǎlǎg) čoráp) Burmese: မော်ဇာ (my) (mauja), ခြေအိတ် (my) (hkreit) Catalan: mitja (ca) f, calça (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 長筒襪／长筒袜 (zh) (chángtǒngwà), 長統襪／长统袜 (zh) (chángtǒngwà), (may be confused for long socks) 長襪／长袜 (zh) (chángwà) Czech: punčocha f Danish: strømpe (da) c Dutch: kous (nl) f Esperanto: ŝtrumpo Estonian: sukk Finnish: sukka (fi) French: bas (fr) m German: Strumpf (de) m Greek: κάλτσα (el) f (káltsa) Hindi: मोज़ा m (mozā) Hungarian: harisnya (hu) Ido: kalzo (io) Indonesian: stoking (id) Interlingua: calcea Irish: stoca (ga) m Italian: calza (it) f, calze di nylon f pl Japanese: ストッキング (ja) (sutokkingu) Kazakh: шұлық (kk) (şūlyq) Khmer: ស្រោមជើង (sraom cəəng) Korean: 스타킹 (ko) (seutaking), 양말(洋襪) (ko) (yangmal), 스토킹 (ko) (seutoking) (North) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: gore (ku) Kyrgyz: байпак (ky) (baypak), чулки (ky) (çulki) Lao: ຖົງເທົ້າຍາວ (thong thao nyāo), ຖົງຕີນ (thong tīn) Latin: tībiāle n Latvian: zeķe f Lithuanian: kojinė f Luxembourgish: Strëmp (lb) f, Hues (lb) f Macedonian: чо́рап m (čórap) Maltese: peduna f Maori: tōkena Mongolian: урт оймс (urt ojms), оймс (mn) (ojms) Nanai: доктон Navajo: yistłé áłtʼą́ą́ʼí Norman: cauche f (Jersey) Norwegian: strømpe (no) f Persian: جوراب‎ (fa) (jurâb) Polish: pończocha (pl) f Portuguese: meia (pt) f Romanian: ciorap (ro) m, șosetă (ro) f Russian: чуло́к (ru) m (čulók) Scottish Gaelic: stocainn f, osan m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: чарапа f Roman: čarapa (sh) f Slovak: pančucha f Slovene: nogavica (sl) f Southern Altai: ук (uk), чулук (čuluk) Spanish: media (es) f Swedish: strumpa (sv) c Tajik: ҷӯроб (jürob) Taos: mę́dianą Thai: ถุงน่อง (tǔng-nɔ̂ng) Turkish: çorap (tr) Turkmen: jorap Ukrainian: панчо́ха (uk) f (pančóxa) Uzbek: paypoq (uz) Vietnamese: vớ (vi) Zazaki: gêrwe

See also

• hose
• netherstock
• pantyhose
• sock

Etymology 2

From stock +‎ -ing.

Verb

stocking

1. present participle of stock

   I've almost finished stocking these groceries.

Noun

stocking

1. (forestry) A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.

References

• stocking in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• gnostick, tockings