stockinged

English

Etymology

From stocking +‎ -ed.

Adjective

stockinged (not comparable)

  1. Wearing stockings.
  2. Wearing socks but no shoes.
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 43:
      Miss Gimblet nodded, and the curate, desperately conscious of his stockinged feet, advanced and shook hands awkwardly.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
      "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."

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Verb

stockinged

  1. simple past and past participle of stocking

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