almond rock n.
1. a frock [cite 1893 is poss. double entendre ref. to almond n.1 (1)].
![]() | 🎵 I shall say to a young man gay / If he treads upon my frock / Randy Pandy, sugardy candy / Buy me some Almond Rock. | [perf. Marie Lloyd] Buy Me Some Almond Rock|
![]() | Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 21: She then began removing / Her full-length almond rock. |
2. (also almonds) in pl., socks.
![]() | Observations of Orderly 228: The new army more feebly dubs them ‘almond rocks’. | |
![]() | Queenslander (Brisbane) 27 Mar. 3/5: ‘Almond rocks’ for socks. | |
![]() | (con. 1920s) Hell’s Kitchen 216: It was not often we had to use socks when we were out on a job. Fancy paying sevenpence each time for a pair of ‘almond rocks’. | |
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![]() | private coll. n.p.: Socks Almond Rocks. | |
![]() | Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 344: ‘Almond rocks’ for socks. | |
![]() | Ghost Squad 25: Thieves’ argot, spoken properly, is a foreign language which needs to be learned [...] Among the words and phrases derived from rhyming slang are: [...] ‘Almonds’ equals almond rock (sock). | |
![]() | Up the Frog 12: ’Is plates o’ meat pen and ink. ’Is almond rocks must be reels of cotton. | |
![]() | Old Familiar Juice (1973) 82: dadda: You forgot me socks [...] Almond rocks . | |
![]() | (ref. to 1930s) Coronation Cups and Jam Jars 104: I’ve worn out Gawd knows how many pairs of Almond Rocks. | |
![]() | Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 17: Almond Rocks Socks. | |
![]() | Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Almond rocks. Rhyming slang for socks. | |
![]() | Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 almond rocks: a pair of socks. | |
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 6/2: almond rocks n. socks. | |
![]() | Fabulosa 288/2: almond rocks socks. | |
![]() | Man-Eating Typewriter 133: Filled with rotting munja, dirty almond-rocks, luppernail clippings [...] dead rats and French letters. |