stocking
pronunciation
How to pronounce stocking in British English:
UK [ˈstɒkɪŋ]
How to pronounce stocking in American English:
US [ˈstɑːkɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
- the activity of supplying a stock of something
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- Adjective:
- wearing stockings
Word Origin
- stocking
- stocking: [16] Stocking is a derivative of stock, in the now defunct sense ‘stocking’. This appears to have arisen in the 15th century from the blackly humorous comparison of the stocks in which one’s legs are restrained as a punishment with ‘leggings, hose’. Until comparatively recently stocking was a unisex term (as it still is in the expression in one’s stockinged feet); the restriction to ‘women’s hose’ is a 20th-century development.=> stock
- stocking (n.)
- "close-fitting garment covering the foot and lower leg," 1580s, from stock "leg covering, stocking" (late 15c.), from Old English stocu "sleeve," related to Old English stocc "trunk, log" (see stock (n.1)). Probably so called because of a fancied resemblance of legs to tree trunks, or a reference to the punishing stocks. Cognates include Old Norse stuka, Old High German stuhha, from the same Proto-Germanic source. Restriction to women's hose is 20c. As a receptacle for Christmas presents, attested from 1853; hence stocking stuffer first recorded 1945. Stocking-feet "without shoes" is from 1802.
Example
- 1. Where should I hang my stocking ?
- 2. And put the present in your stocking .
- 3. The reason consumers cannot find these products is that businesses are not stocking them .
- 4. However , because of the alpaca in south america is almost entirely at the original stocking into natural breeding , and because of the international city
- 5. Fetish legs stocking big ass wife .