frock

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What the frock is your frocking problem with the word frock, motherfrocker?

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  1. noun A woman's dress.
  2. noun A long loose outer garment, as that worn by artists and craftspeople; a smock.
  3. noun A woolen garment formerly worn by sailors; a jersey.
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  • Mother made a garment for father to work in which he called his frock. —  The Bark Covered House
  • What the frock is your frocking problem with the word frock, motherfrocker? —  Jezebel
  • And in the autumn Helen Chapman will have a birthday company, and I am invited already, or my frock is," and Doris laughed. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
  • An old man in smock-frock, and five or six other carters in the same dress were working hard, apparently to extricate the waggon Why don't the fellows unload the cart?" —  John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
  • To the simple lad she seemed as richly dressed as a fairy princess, for her frock was of flowered silk, she wore silver buckles upon her little shoes, and her daintily flounced cap was fastened at either ear with a quaint medallion of beaten gold. —  The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country
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gown ·  blouse ·  shawl ·  bonnet ·  apron ·  stocking ·  waistcoat ·  breech ·  petticoat ·  cape ·  bodice ·  overcoat

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frock:   frocks
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English frok, a monk's habit, from Old French froc, from Medieval Latin froccus, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English frok, frokke, froc, also frog, frogge (see frog), a frock, especially of a monk's cowl or habit, from Old French froc, French froc, a monk's cowl or habit, = Provencal floc, a woolen stuff, a monk's cowl, from Middle Latin floccus (also froccus, frocus, after the F.), a monk's cowl or habit, apparently from Latin floccus, a flock (of wool), etc.: see flock. The sense is like that of Old High German hroch, roch, roc, Middle High German roc, German rock (Middle Latin hrocus, roccus, rocus), a coat; but a derivation of Old French froc from Old High German hroch is not probable. The modern F. frac, a dress-coat (later G. Swedish frack, a dress-coat, = Danish frakke, coat), appears to be a F. reflex of the English word.
  2. from frock, n.
  3. English dial., from Middle English froke, equivalent to frogge: see frog.
 

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