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stockinged

stockinged

1 7.0
Wearing thin socks that cover the feet and lower legs
  • adjective
translation icon : con medias
  • Then she sat, looking down at her stockinged feet.
  • stockinged feet
  • stockinged legs

Examples

  • Running in his stockinged feet.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Her tiny, stockinged feet seemed to beg for mercy.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • "In his stockinged feet, he padded back over to the sofa and sat down."

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The polished wood felt slippery to her stockinged feet.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Her stockinged feet left impressions in the new rose-colored carpet.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The bare parquet floor exhaled no more than a whisper as his stockinged feet glided over its polished surface.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • She enjoyed the comfort of the warm carpet under her stockinged feet as she relaxed at home.

  • He quietly moved around the house in his stockinged feet, careful not to wake anyone.

  • After a long day, she kicked off her shoes and walked around in her stockinged feet to feel the cool floor.

How Covered

stockinged
1 7.0
sockless
1 4.4
barefoot
72 1.1

Surface Forms

stockinged positive

Morphology

stockinged = stocking (transparent) = stocking + ed

Formed from the noun 'stocking' with the adjectival/categorical suffix '-ed', meaning 'wearing stockings', which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word stockinged comes from stocking, which comes from an old English word stock meaning 'leg', so a stocking is a close cover for the leg. The ending -ed means 'wearing', so stockinged simply means 'wearing stockings'.