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