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wearing yellow stockings

wearing yellow stockings is the present participle and gerund of wear yellow stockings.

Meaning of wear yellow stockings

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

Questions about wearing yellow stockings

What is wearing yellow stockings the present participle and gerund of?
Wearing yellow stockings is the present participle and gerund of wear yellow stockings.

Words near wearing yellow stockings in the dictionary

  1. wearing the trousers
  2. wearing thin
  3. wearing through
  4. wearing too many hats
  5. wearing up
  6. wearing yellow stockings
  7. wearingly
  8. wearings
  9. wearish
  10. wearishness
  11. wearisom

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