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stocking

noun
🔊/ˈstɒkɪŋ/
🔊/ˈstɑːkɪŋ/
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  1. either of a pair of thin pieces of clothing that fit closely over a woman’s legs and feet长筒女袜
    • a pair of silk stockings一双长筒丝袜
    compare tights see also body stocking
    Extra Examples
    • I've ripped my stockings again.我又把长筒袜钩破了。
    • She slowly peeled off one stocking.她慢慢地脱下了一只长袜。
    • She laddered her stocking on a bramble bush.她的长筒袜在黑莓灌木上破了。
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • fishnet
    • sheer
    • laddered
    • …
    … of stockings
    • pair
    verb + stocking
    • pull on
    • ladder
    • rip
    • …
    stocking + noun
    • filler
    • stuffer
    See full entry
  2. (also Christmas stocking)
     a long sock that children leave out when they go to bed on Christmas Eve so that it can be filled with presents
    • The stockings were hung by the chimney.长袜挂在烟囱旁。
    • Santa will be filling the stockings at Christmas time.圣诞老人将会在圣诞节时把长袜塞得满满的。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • fishnet
    • sheer
    • laddered
    • …
    … of stockings
    • pair
    verb + stocking
    • pull on
    • ladder
    • rip
    • …
    stocking + noun
    • filler
    • stuffer
    See full entry
    3. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from stock in the dialect sense ‘stocking’ + -ing.
Idioms
in your stocking(ed) feet
  1. wearing socks or stockings but not shoes只穿袜不穿鞋