different between socking vs stocking

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?k??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?k??/
• Hyphenation: sock?ing

Verb

socking

1. present participle of sock

Adverb

socking (not comparable)

1. (Britain) very, extremely

Usage notes

This adverb is chiefly used with great; usage with other adjectives (big, huge, enormous, fat) is much more limited, and is in any case restricted to the semantic field of “big”.

Further reading

• socking at OneLook Dictionary Search
• socking in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st?k??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st?k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??
• Homophone: stalking (with cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From stock (“cover with material”) +? -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.

Noun

stocking (plural stockings)

1. A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.

   a pair of stockings

2. A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
3. A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

Usage notes

• Stocking may refer either to men's socks or to women's hose, but rarely to socks when worn by women. However, this usage appears somewhat variable.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: stocainn

Translations

See also

• hose
• netherstock
• pantyhose
• sock

Etymology 2

From stock +? -ing.

Verb

stocking

1. present participle of stock

   I've almost finished stocking these groceries.

Noun

stocking

1. (forestry) A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.

References

• stocking in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• gnostick, tockings