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stocking
[ stok-ing ]
noun
- a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- something resembling such a covering.
stocking
/ ˈɒɪŋ /
noun
- one of a pair of close-fitting garments made of knitted yarn to cover the foot and part or all of the leg
- something resembling this in position, function, appearance, etc
- in one's stocking feet or in one's stockinged feetwearing stockings or socks but no shoes
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٴdziԲ adjective
- ٴdziԲ· adjective
- -ٴdziԲ noun
- v·ٴdziԲ noun
- un·ٴdziԲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stocking1
Idioms and Phrases
- in one's stocking feet, wearing stockings, but without shoes:
Be careful of glass splinters if you walk through here in your stocking feet.
Example Sentences
But stocking in bulk, if you can afford it and have space for the extra produce, is clearly going to save money in the long term.
If I got one of those suckers in my Christmas stocking or trick-or-treating, I was like, “All right!”
Others are stocking up on some items in anticipation of price hikes.
The kits soon became birthday gifts and stocking stuffers.
“It’s piecemeal,” her 89-year-old husband Verne said about stocking up again.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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