Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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From stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.
A pair of nylon stockings.
stocking (plural stockings)
- A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
a pair of stockings
- A large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
- A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
- A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
Usage notes
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- 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
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Translations
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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) (mōja)
- 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)
- Ingrian: sukka
- 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) (culki)
- 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 (dokton)
- Navajo: yistłé áłtʼą́ą́ʼí
- Norman: cauche f (Jersey)
- Norwegian: strømpe (no) f
- Ottoman Turkish: چوراب (çorab)
- 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
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Etymology 2
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From stock + -ing.
stocking
- present participle and gerund of stock
- I've almost finished stocking these groceries.
stocking
- (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.
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