Hassocks
Proper noun
Meaning
Hassocks
A large village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3015).
Examples
P.T. Marsh, The Discipline of Popular Government: Lord Salisbury’s Domestic Statecraft, 1881–1902 (Hassocks, Sussex, 1978), p 326. Professor Paul Smith argues that, "into the ‘progressive’ strain of modern Conservatism he simply will not fit."
Downstairs, the addictive dance music of Cheb Khaled and other Arabic artists plays over a scattering of wicker sofas, tile tables, and leather hassocks that seem designed to make you feel incredibly short unless they’re piled on top of one another.
Others include Healthy Girl, which promotes menstrual hygiene through sanitary towels made of washable cotton, and Funny Design, which creates hassocks and jewelry out of recycled clothes and plastic bottles.
Meanwhile, at Hassocks, the Under-21 West league title was won with two games to spare as the Young Lions beat the Robins 3-1.