different between smocking vs shocking

English

Etymology

From smock +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sm?k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sm?k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??
• Hyphenation: smock?ing

Noun

smocking (countable and uncountable, plural smockings)

1. (sewing) An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.

Related terms

• smock
• smocker

Translations

Verb

smocking

1. present participle of smock

Notes

References

Further reading

• smocking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mockings

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Adjective

shocking (comparative more shocking, superlative most shocking)

1. Inspiring shock; startling.
2. Unusually obscene or lewd.
3. (colloquial) Extremely bad.

   What a shocking calamity!

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:surprising

Translations

Verb

shocking

1. present participle of shock

Noun

shocking (plural shockings)

1. The application of an electric shock.

Anagrams

• Hockings, chokings