"David DeLaney" > wrote in message
...
> Emperor Wang > wrote:
>>> My impression (as a mere non-frock-wearing male of lower-middle
>>> middle class origin) is that sometime in the mid-20th century in
>>> the UK "frock" came to be used for "dress" as jocular or
>>> ironic(BrE) understatement. I wouldn't be certain that this hint
>>> of understatement has completely vanished.
>>
>>I know a girl who lives on the block
>>She likes to do it in her sister's frock
>>She likes to boogie
>>She do the tube steak boogie
>>Boogie woogie baby
>>Boogie woogie all night long
>
> My sugar is so refined
> She's one o'dem high-class kinds
> She never wears a dress
> it's always a frock
> She always winds her timepiece up
> instead of her clock
>


Mary had a trouser suit
She also had a frock
Sometimes she sucked a lollipop
Sometimes she cooked a sock.


--
Ray
UK