stockinged

Wearing stockings.

Adjective

  1. Wearing stockings.
  2. Wearing 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 43:
    • "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...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- Proto-Germanic *stikanąder. Proto-Germanic *stukkaz Proto-West Germanic *stokk Old English stocc Middle English stok English stock English -ing English stocking English -ed English stockinged From stocking + -ed.

Antonyms

stockingless unstockinged

Derived

bestockinged bluestockinged

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of stocking