Gr- words as mushrooms
Some words propagate like mushrooms: no roots but a sizable crowd of upstarts calling themselves relatives. Gr-words are the pet subject of all works on sound imitation and sound symbolism.
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In one's stockinged feet
One does not need to be an etymologist to suggest that stocking consists of "stock-" and "-ing". The trouble is that though "-ing" occurs in some nouns, it looks odd in stocking. Few English words have more seemingly incompatible senses than stock.
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