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Frock vs Blouse - What's the difference?

frock | blouse | Synonyms |

Frock is a synonym of blouse.


As verbs the difference between frock and blouse

is that frock is to clothe in a frock while blouse is .

As a noun frock

is a dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body or frock can be (dialectal) a frog.

frock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) frok, frokke, from (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
  • An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals, a habit.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clothe in a frock.
  • To make a cleric.
    • Derived terms
    * defrock

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) froke, variation of . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) A frog.

    • blouse

    English

    (wikipedia blouse)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt and reaches from the neck to the waist or below. Nowadays, in colloquial use, blouse refers almost always to a woman's shirt that buttons down the front.
  • (military) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.

    • Derived terms

    * deblouse

    Verb

    (blous)
  • To hang a garment in loose folds.
  • (military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
  • * 1989 , Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military , page 311
    • An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail to blouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked. "

    Antonyms

    * (military) unblouse

    Derived terms

    * unblouse

    Anagrams

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