stocking

See also: Stocking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈstɒkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ

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
• stockinger
• stocking filler

• stocking-maker
• stocking stuffer
• surgical stocking

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)
• Basque: galtzerdi (eu)
• Belarusian: панчо́ха f (pančóxa)
• Bengali: মোজা (mōja)
• Bulgarian: чора́п (bg) m (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), 长筒袜 (zh) (chángtǒngwà), 長統襪／长统袜 (zh) (chángtǒngwà), 长统袜 (zh) (chángtǒngwà), (may be confused for long socks) 長襪／长袜 (zh) (chángwà), 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 (ko) (yangmal) (洋襪 (ko)), 스토킹 (ko) (seutoking) (North)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: байпак (ky) (baypak), чулки (ky) (culki)
• Lao: ຖົງເທົ້າຍາວ (thong thao nyāo), ຖົງຕີນ (thong tīn)
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• 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)
• 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
• 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
• sock
• pantyhose

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, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• gnostick, tockings