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"Stockings" is a plural of: stocking. |
Date "Stockings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | Woman's only savings for A Rainy Day. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of stockings, denotes that you will derive pleasure from dissolute companionship. For a young woman to see her stockings ragged, or worn, foretells that she will be guilty of unwise, if not immoral conduct. To dream that she puts on fancy stockings, she will be fond of the attention of men, and she should be careful to whom she shows preference. If white ones appear to be on her feet, she is threatened with woeful disappointment or illness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: StockingsSynonym: Hosiery. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stockings |
| English words defined with "Stockings": boothose ♦ Darning needle ♦ garter belt ♦ Half hose, hose, hosiery ♦ knitting machine ♦ ladder, leotards ♦ nylon stocking, nylons ♦ pantyhose ♦ rayon stocking, rayons, run ♦ Shortclothes, silk stocking, stockinette stitch, stocking, Stocking frame, stockinged, suspender belt ♦ tights, To be out at the heels ♦ Unstockinged. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Stockings": andalusian yarn ♦ bay horse, Belvawney, BLOOD FOR BLOOD, Buffs ♦ display model, DRAWERS ♦ Fal-lals, Foot Care, Friar Tuck ♦ GARTHER ♦ Heel, Heels ♦ IRONER, SOCK ♦ reexaminer, REINSPECTOR, RUM DRAWERS ♦ sock drier, sock folder, sock-and-stocking ironer, STOCK DRAWERS ♦ VAMPER ♦ WELT ROD, window model. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Stockings": Stocking. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Abe Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, right? Well, who do you think made the silk stockings worn by our early leaders? (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) There she is, running along the beach there, got her shoes and stockings off. (Carousel; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Oscar Hammerstein II) Mom! There's two giant turtles in the bathroom and one of them has got your stockings! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Marty Eisenberg) I ripped my stockings. (Plaza Suite; writing credit: Neil Simon) | |
Lyrics | You're an all night generator wrapped is stockings and a dress (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi) Slipping Into Stockings, (Another Day; performing artist: Paul McCartney) I'm your shoes and your stockings (Get It On; performing artist: T Rex) Thursday night you stockings needed mending. (Lady Madonna; performing artist: The Beatles) | |
Tongue Twisters | Stockings stuffed softly by Santa. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | All Neat in Black Stockings (1968) The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) Silk Stockings (1957) Yellow Stockings (1928) Rolled Stockings (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S. Army. Hospital Center, Allerey, France. : Red Cross Hut- Filling Christmas Stockings. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | U.S. Army Field Hospital No. 337, Bereziniki, Russia. : Christmas Stockings provided by American Red Cross, tree in background. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Girl in pointed hat bending to fix stockings and mermaid. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The family stockings. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Conversion. Hosiery factory. Key to this picture is the little spool of silk thread on the machine at right. Instead of using Japanese silk to make women's stockings, this Eastern mill is converting many of its looms (see left) to production of mosquito n. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Linda Darnell in her dressing room, wearing everyday cotton mesh stockings as a part of her rehearsal costume. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cotton stockings. Ann Sheridan demonstrates the elasticity and sheerness of the new style of cotton hose. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Esther Wheeler, book photos at 1506 Woodside Ave., Baldwin, Long Island. Stockings and clock. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | First Nine of the Cincinnati (Red Stockings) Base Ball Club. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chorus girl in short red costume and blue stockings. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | As fast as the heels of her stockings wore out she drew them down into her shoes. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress and sash and long black stockings, and knew that he had yielded to them a thousand times. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Of these I likewise made very tolerable stockings. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Wear thick, soft socks and avoid wearing slippery stockings, mended stockings, or stockings with seams. (references) | |
Raising the head of the bed and wearing elastic stockings may also help. Increased salt in the diet and treatment with salt-retaining hormones such as fludrocortisone are other possible approaches. (references) | ||
Economic History | Colombia | Also included are women and girls' lingerie including pantyhose, tights, stockings, hosiery, brassieres and panties. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GARTHER, n. An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stockings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stockings" is used about 486 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 486 | 12,289 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Stockings": fishnet stockings ♦ making of stockings ♦ mend stockings ♦ mesh stockings ♦ micromesh stockings ♦ pull off one's stockings ♦ varicose stockings ♦ worsted stockings. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Stockings": blue-stockings, knit-stockings, silk-stockings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Stockings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbathem (pull off one's stockings, take off one's shoes), rrjetë e thurur (mesh stockings), gete (fishnet stockings, gaiter, hose, leotards, panty hose), çorape të puthitura (full-fashioned stockings). (various references) | |
Asturian | medies. (various references) | |
Chinese | 靺 (name of a tribe, socks), 襪子 (socks), 襪 (socks). (various references) | |
Danish | strikkemaskine til reparation af stroemper (machine for repairing stockings), tryk-farvemaskine til strikvarer og strømper på strømpeben (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers), tryk-farvemaskine i autoklaver til strikvarer og strømper på strømpeben (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers), farveapparat til strømper (dyeing appliance for stockings). (various references) | |
Dutch | machine voor het herstellen van kousen (machine for repairing stockings). (various references) | |
Finnish | sukkasillaan (in one's stockings), muoteilla olevien neulosten ja sukkien painevärjäyskone (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers). (various references) | |
French | machine remmailler les bas (machine for repairing stockings), appareil pour teindre les bas (dyeing appliance for stockings), appareil de teinture en cuve autoclave pour tricots et bas sur formes (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers). (various references) | |
Frisian | hoazzen. (various references) | |
German | Strümpfe (nylons), Seidenstrümpfen. (various references) | |
Greek | κάλτσες (socks), καλτσόν. (various references) | |
Hungarian | harisnya (moggan, stocking). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | aliqsikutaak. (various references) | |
Italian | rimagliatrice per calze (machine for repairing stockings), apparecchio per tingere le calze (dyeing appliance for stockings). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ストークスの法則 (heater, stock, stock car, stock car race, stock control, stockbroker, stocker, Stockholm, Stoic, Stoicism, Stokes' law, stole, stone, stone circle, stone crab, stone wash, store, store brand, store concept, storm, story, story teller, storyboard, stove, stove league). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ストッキング . (various references) | |
Macedonian | zenski chorapi. (various references) | |
Manx | oashyryn sheeidey (silk stockings), oashyryn olley (woollen stockings), oashyryn nailyn (nylon stockings), oashyryn moggyllagh (open-work stockings), oashyryn markee (riding stockings), oashyryn baney (white stockings), oashyryn asnagh (ribbed stockings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockingsstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | meias (socks). (various references) | |
Provencal | colant. (various references) | |
Romanian | repara ciorapi (mend stockings), ciorapi de lânã (worsted stockings), ciorãpãrie (hosiery, making of stockings, smallware shop). (various references) | |
Romansch | chaltschiels. (various references) | |
Romany | joorapy . (various references) | |
Russian | чулки со швом (full-fashioned stockings), крученая сетка (mesh stockings), ажурные чулки (fishnet stockings, fish-net stockings). (various references) | |
Samoan | totigi uumi. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mrežaste čarape (mesh stockings), čarape (fishnet stockings, hosiery). (various references) | |
Spanish | las medias. (various references) | |
Swedish | HT-färgningsapparat för trikå och damstrumpor på form (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers), HT-färgapparat för trikå och damstrumpor på form (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers), högtemperaturfärgningsapparat för trikå och damstrumpor på form (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers), högtemperaturfärgapparat för trikå och damstrumpor på form (pressure dyeing machine for knitted goods and stockings on formers, pressure dyeing machine in autoclaves for knitted goods and stockings on formers). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Stockings": bluestockings. (additional references) | |
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"Stockings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: srockings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Stockings" (pronounced stÄ"kingz) |
| 4 | -k i ng z | bookings, carjackings, hijackings, makings, markings, pickings, rankings, takings, undertakings, vikings, workings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, marketings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, uprisings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-k-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gnostics, stocking. | |
-2 letters: consist, cosigns, costing, gnostic, socking, stingos, stoking, tocsins, tossing. | |
-3 letters: coigns, coking, cosign, coting, gnosis, incogs, ingots, scions, sickos, snicks, sonics, sticks, stingo, stings, stinko, stinks, stocks, stoics, tigons, tocsin, toking, tonics, tsking. | |
-4 letters: cions, cists, coign, coins, conks, costs, ginks, gists, icons, ikons, incog, ingot, kings, kinos, kists, knits, knots. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-k-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: stocktakings. | |
+4 letters: blockbustings, bluestockings, locksmithings, stockbrokings, stockjobbings. | |
+5 letters: laughingstocks. | |
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