Frock

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  • noun. A woman's dress.
  • noun. A long loose outer garment, as that worn by artists and craftspeople; a smock.
  • noun. A woolen garment formerly worn by sailors; a jersey.
  • noun. A robe worn by monks, friars, and other clerics; a habit.
  • transitive verb. To clothe in a frock.
  • transitive verb. To invest with clerical office.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A garment with large sleeves worn by monks.
  • noun. A garment covering the body and worn by either sex.
  • noun. The principal outer garment of women: a term partly abandoned in recent times for the indistinctive word dress and the word gown, but still retained, particularly in the British islands, for the outer garment, consisting of a bodice or waist and a skirt, worn by children.
  • noun. Same as frock-coat.
  • noun. In the British service, the undress regimental coat of the guards, artillery, and royal marines.
  • noun. A sort of worsted netting worn by sailors, often in lieu of a shirt. Also called a Guernsey frock. Jamieson.
  • To supply or cover with a frock; hence, to invest with the privileges of those whose distinctive dress is a frock, as of a monk. See frock, n., 1.
  • noun. A frog.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To clothe in a frock.
  • transitive verb. To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.
  • noun. A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock.
  • noun. A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
  • noun. a body coat for men, usually double-breasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full.
  • noun. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A frog.
  • noun. A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
  • noun. An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals, a habit.
  • verb. To clothe in a frock.
  • verb. To make a cleric.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a habit worn by clerics
  • noun. a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
  • verb. put a frock on
  • Word Usage
    "What the frock is your frocking problem with the word frock, motherfrocker?"
    Form
    defrock  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    apparel  clothe  dress  enclothe  fit out  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bach  Bangkok  Bloch  Block  Brock  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    apron  blouse  bodice  bonnet  breech  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    unfrock  
    verb-form
    frocked  frocking  frocks