Meanings
adjectivestockinged (not comparable)
- not comparableWearing stockings.
- not comparableWearing socks but no shoes.
Miss Gimblet nodded, and the curate, desperately conscious of his stockinged feet, advanced and shook hands awkwardly.
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 431 more example
"What do you think, though; came sneaking back on the eight-forty. Must have. Took his boots off in the garden. Came sneaking upstairs in his stockinged feet."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of stocking
Synonyms & antonyms
Opposite
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)teyg-
- Proto-Germanic*stikaną
- Proto-Germanic*stukkaz
- Proto-West Germanic*stokk
- Old Englishstocc
- Middle Englishstok
- Englishstock
- Englishstocking
- Englishstockinged
Rhymes & wordplay
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Chicago
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