stocking

See also: Stocking

English

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
• Homophone: stalking (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)

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

   a pair of stockings

3. Ellipsis of Christmas stocking; a large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
4. A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
5. 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

• bluestocking
• body stocking
• bodystocking
• Christmas stocking
• Leatherstocking
• mob stocking
• netherstocking
• openwork stocking
• overstocking
• seamed stocking
• silk-stocking
• stirrup stocking
• stocking cap
• stockinged
• stockinger
• stocking filler
• stocking-foot
• stocking frame
• stockingful
• stockingless
• stockingmaker
• stocking-maker
• stocking-stuffer
• stocking stuffer
• surgical stocking
• understocking
• wear yellow stockings

Descendants

• → Scottish Gaelic: stocainn
• → Korean: 스타킹 (seutaking)

Translations

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

• Albanian: çorape f, çorap (sq) m
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: ук (uk), чулук (čuluk)

• Arabic: جَوْرَب m (jawrab) (pl: جَوَارِب m pl (jawārib))
• Armenian: գուլպա (hy) (gulpa)
• Azerbaijani: corab (az)
• Bashkir: ойоҡ (oyoq)
• Basque: galtzerdi (eu)
• Belarusian: панчо́ха f (pančóxa)
• Bengali: মোজা (bn) (mōja)
• Bulgarian: чора́п (bg) m (čoráp), дъ́лъг чора́п m (dǎ́lǎg 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 (cs) f
• Danish: strømpe (da) c
• Dutch: kous (nl) f
• Esperanto: ŝtrumpo
• Estonian: sukk
• Finnish: sukka (fi)
• French: bas (fr) m
• Georgian: წინდა (ka) (c̣inda)
• German: Strumpf (de) m
• Greek: κάλτσα (el) f (káltsa)
• Hindi: मोज़ा m (mozā)
• Hungarian: harisnya (hu)
• Ido: kalzo (io)
• Indonesian: stoking (id), setoking
• 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)
• Kashubian: sztrimpa f
• Kazakh: шұлық (kk) (şūlyq)
• Khmer: ស្រោមជើង (sraom cəəng)
• Korean: 스타킹 (ko) (seutaking), 양말(洋襪) (ko) (yangmal), 스토킹 (ko) (seutoking) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gore (ku)

• Kyrgyz: байпак (ky) (baypak), чулки (ky) (culki)
• Lao: ຖົງເທົ້າຍາວ (thong th wa), ຖົງຕີນ (thong tīn)
• Latin: tībiāle n
• Latvian: zeķe f
• Lithuanian: kojinė f
• Luxembourgish: Strëmp (lb) f, Hues (lb) f
• Macedonian: чо́рап m (čórap)
• Malay: stokin
• Maltese: peduna f
• Māori: tōkena
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: урт оймс (urt ojms), оймс (mn) (ojms)

• Nanai: доктон (dokton)
• Navajo: yistłé áłtʼą́ą́ʼí
• Norman: cauche f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strømpe (no) f

• Persian:

  Dari: جُورَاب (jūrāb)

  Iranian 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: ча̀рапа f

  Latin: čàrapa (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)

  Ottoman Turkish: چوراب (çorab)

• Turkmen: jorap
• Ukrainian: панчо́ха (uk) f (pančóxa)
• Urdu: موزَہ m (moza)
• Uyghur: پايپاق (paypaq), ئۇزۇن پايپاق (uzun paypaq)
• Uzbek: paypoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: vớ (vi)
• Zazaki: gêrwe

See also

• hose
• netherstock
• pantyhose
• sock

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-

Proto-Germanic *stikanąder.

Proto-Germanic *stukkaz

Proto-West Germanic *stokk

Old English stocc

Middle English stok

English stock

English -ing

English stocking

From stock + -ing.

Verb

stocking

1. present participle and gerund 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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stocking”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• gnostick, tockings