Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: frock
IPA transcription: [fɹ'ɑk]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: frock
    Meaning: put a frock on
Usage examples
  • Opposite him sat a small girl in a pink and white checked frock.
  • We must go to the next room for Grace's frock," said Miss Rennie.
  • Then Agnes, in a new white frock, came up with three shillings, proceeds of bouquets.
  • But I was trembling all over, and still kept tight hold of his smock frock, and I must have been quite pale.
  • Florence looked all about the room, but could see nothing save Roger's clean smock frock which hung against the door.
  • Grisha!" said their mother, trying to save the frock, but with tears in her eyes, smiling a blissful, rapturous smile.
  • I have got a frock which I will bring with me as a present for Potsey; and I will make her sew on the buttons for herself.
  • She pinched her waist, dyed her hair, powdered her face, and affected juvenile dress of the white frock and blue sash kind.
  • A doll never knew when she might be told that she was very ill, and undressed and put to bed, though she might but just have got on her new frock.
  • Hetty got quite out of patience, and at last, with a frown and pout, and gathering tears, she said, "Oh dear, Aunt, I wish you'd speak to Totty; she keeps putting her legs up so, and messing my frock."