Word.ws English Dictionary

wear yellow stockings

wear yellow stockings verb: be jealous.

Verb

wear yellow stockings (third-person singular simple present wears yellow stockings, present participle wearing yellow stockings, simple past wore yellow stockings, past participle worn yellow stockings)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) be jealous

Forms of wear yellow stockings

third-person singular presentwears yellow stockings
present participlewearing yellow stockings
pastwore yellow stockings
past participleworn yellow stockings

Origin of wear yellow stockings

Compare Swedish bära svarta strumpor.

Questions about wear yellow stockings

What does wear yellow stockings mean?
Wear yellow stockings means be jealous.
What part of speech is wear yellow stockings?
Wear yellow stockings is a verb.
What is the past tense of wear yellow stockings?
The past tense of wear yellow stockings is wore yellow stockings.

Words near wear yellow stockings in the dictionary

  1. wear through
  2. wear too many hats
  3. wear two hats
  4. wear up
  5. wear weary
  6. wear yellow stockings
  7. wearabilities
  8. wearability
  9. wearable
  10. wearable camera
  11. wearable cameras

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wear yellow stockings (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wear yellow stockings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wear_yellow_stockings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.