FROCK
What does "FROCK" mean?
A woman's or girl's dress, or a long gown worn by a monk or priest.
Meanings
- A dress, especially a simple or old-fashioned one. She wore a flowered summer frock to the garden party.
- A long, loose outer garment worn by monks and friars. The monk's coarse brown frock was tied at the waist with rope.
- To invest a person with priestly office (the opposite of 'unfrock'). He was frocked as a priest in the cathedral. formal
Did you know?
- When a priest is 'defrocked,' the word is literal: 'frock' once meant the monk's robe, so to defrock is to take away the garment that marked the office.
Word origin
From Old French 'froc', a monk's habit, of Germanic origin; the clerical sense is the source of 'defrock' and 'unfrock', meaning to strip a priest of office.
Remember it
A FROCK is a F-ROCK of cloth - solid and plain, draped from neck to floor.
A little poem
One cloth can clothe a girl at play or a vow at prayer;
the frock asks only who is standing there.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why did the priest keep his old robe in the boutique? It was the one frock he refused to be defrocked of.
What it teaches
The same cloth means a dress or a vow depending on who wears it; the garment borrows its weight from the life.
Quick facts
What does FROCK mean?
A woman's or girl's dress, or a long gown worn by a monk or priest.
Is FROCK a valid word?
Yes — FROCK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FROCK?
FROCK has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FROCK come from?
From Old French 'froc', a monk's habit, of Germanic origin; the clerical sense is the source of 'defrock' and 'unfrock', meaning to strip a priest of office.
What can FROCK teach us?
The same cloth means a dress or a vow depending on who wears it; the garment borrows its weight from the life.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.