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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɒkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
• Homophone: stalking (cot_–_caught merger)

From stock (“cover with material”) +‎ -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.

A pair of nylon stockings.

stocking (plural stockings)

1. (footwear) A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
   a pair of stockings
2. Ellipsis of Christmas stocking; a large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
3. A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
4. A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

• 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.

• 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

• → Scottish Gaelic: stocainn

• → Korean: 스타킹 (seutaking)

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

• hose

• netherstock

• pantyhose

• sock

From stock + -ing.

stocking

1. present participle and gerund of stock
   I've almost finished stocking these groceries.

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.

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