knee-hi vs stocking

knee-hi and stocking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
knee-hi	Yes	No	No	No
stocking	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stocking is a hypernym of knee-hi; that is, stocking is a word with a broader meaning than knee-hi:

knee-hi: a sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees
stocking: close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)

Other hypernyms of knee-hi include sock.

knee-hi (noun)	stocking (noun)
a sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees	the activity of supplying a stock of something
	close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)