frock
To clothe in a frockTo clothe (somebody) in a frock.
» Rima always wears a frock at parties.
Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(transitive)To clothe (somebody) in a frock.
put a frock on
(transitive)To make (somebody) a cleric.
(US, transitive)To grant to an officer the title and uniform of a rank he will soon be promoted to.
Examples
2 sentencesRima always wears a frock at parties.
Tom wears a frock, but he's not a priest.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English frok, frokke, from Old French froc (“frock, a monk's gown or habit”),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”).
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Forms
frocks, frocking, frocked, frockedWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.