wear yellow stockings

verb

be jealous

Meanings

verbwear yellow stockings (third-person singular simple present wears yellow stockings, present participle wearing yellow stockings, simple past wore yellow stockings, past participle worn yellow stockings)

present singular third person wears yellow stockings · participle present wearing yellow stockings · past wore yellow stockings · participle past worn yellow stockings

  1. idiomaticobsoletebe jealous

Origin

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