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frock

/fɹɒk/US/fɹɑk/

frock noun: a dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.

frock: a dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body
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Noun (1)

frock (plural frocks)

  1. A dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
    • This was just what he had been afraid of. These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.1953, Ian Fleming, “Black Hare and Grey Hound”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 105
  2. An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit.
  3. A sailor's jersey.
  4. An undress regimental coat.

Verb

frock (third-person singular simple present frocks, present participle frocking, simple past and past participle frocked)

  1. (transitive) To clothe (somebody) in a frock.
    • […] Mrs. Parmly-Coles, in thus frocking her daughter, was no jealous cat but a pearl among mothers.1935, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan, page 113
  2. (transitive) To make (somebody) a cleric.
  3. (US, transitive) To grant to an officer the title and uniform of a rank he will soon be promoted to.
    • MajGen Richard G. Schulze […] was selected for two-star rank by members of the January selection board. He was frocked on 27 Jan and assigned new duties as CG, MCRD, San Diego.1976, The Marine Corps Gazette, volumes 61-62, page 4

Noun (2)

frock (plural frocks)

  1. (dialectal) A frog.

Proper noun capitalized: Frock

Frock (plural Frocks)

  1. A surname.

frock meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam

frock in Tamil

மகளிர் உடுப்பு, குழந்தை, பெண்டுர் மேலங்கி

frock in Marathi

female garment
फ्रॉक phrŏk

frock in Telugu

frock
పరికిణి parikiṇi

frock in Malayalam

ഉടുപ്പ്, പാവാട
More languagesFewer languages
frock in Kannada
ನಿಲುವಂಗಿ, ಫ್ರಾಕು
frock in Gujarati
ફરાક phrāk

Examples of frock in a sentence

  • The Sun ran the pic with the headline: “Beckham has got his Posh frock on.”
  • Reactionary motifs are chic: Trump hats and “tradwife” frocks, monarchist and anti-feminist sentiments.
  • He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.

All 34 example sentences with frock

Forms of frock

Noun
pluralfrocks
Verb
third-person singular presentfrocks
present participlefrocking
past participlefrocked
pastfrocked
Proper noun
pluralFrocks

Plural of frock: frocks

Origin of frock

From Middle English frok, frokke, from Old French froc (“frock, a monk's gown or habit”), perhaps via Medieval Latin hrocus, roccus, rocus (“a coat”), from Frankish *hrokk (“skirt, dress, robe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz (“robe, jacket, skirt, tunic”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreḱ- (“to weave”). Cognate with Old High German hroch, roch (“skirt, dress, cowl”) – whence German Rock (“skirt, coat”) –, Saterland Frisian Rok (“skirt”), Dutch rok (“skirt, petticoat”), Old English rocc (“an overgarment, tunic, rochet”), Old Norse rokkr (“skirt, jacket”), whence Danish rok (“garment”).

From Middle English frock, froke, from Old Norse frauki (“frog”), related to Old English frocga (“frog”). More at frog.

Words formed from frock

Phrases with frock

Words that rhyme with frock

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Questions about frock

What does frock mean?
Frock means a dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
What is frock in Tamil?
Frock in Tamil is மகளிர் உடுப்பு, குழந்தை, பெண்டுர் மேலங்கி. See Frock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is frock?
Frock can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce frock?
Frock is pronounced /fɹɒk/ (UK).
What is the plural of frock?
The plural of frock is frocks.

Words near frock in the dictionary

  1. frobnicating
  2. frobnitz
  3. frobnitzes
  4. frobs
  5. Frocester
  6. frock
  7. frock coat
  8. frock coats
  9. frock flick
  10. frock flicks
  11. frock-coat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frock (page history and authors); Frock (page history and authors); frock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పరికిణి (Telugu) (page history and authors); frock (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frock (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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