- present participle of stock.
stocking
Americannoun
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a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
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something resembling such a covering.
idioms
noun
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one of a pair of close-fitting garments made of knitted yarn to cover the foot and part or all of the leg
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something resembling this in position, function, appearance, etc
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wearing stockings or socks but no shoes
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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half-stockingnoun
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overstockingnoun
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stockingedadjective
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stockinglessadjective
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unstockingedadjective
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Etymology
Origin of stocking
Example Sentences
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The shop in the city's densely packed Mong Kok area was founded in 2022 by a group of former journalists, stocking literature on democracy, authoritarianism and media literacy.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Hundreds of people milled around a popular market in La Paz, stocking up on food products that had only just arrived.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
If you’re like me and still love stocking up on paper coupons, use them!
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Technically all the pieces were there: loose trousers over tall boots, a linen rubakha, and a stocking cap.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Drapes from Sandringham House in Norfolk have been recycled into 25 stockings by a sewing bee group.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
But Tom was all in clean blue, blue as rain-washed forget-me-nots, and he had green stockings.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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