bloke

== English == === Alternative forms === bloak (archaic) === Etymology === Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized: From a modern Celtic language, such as Irish bloc (“block”) or Scottish Gaelic ploc (“large, stubborn person”, literally “block of wood”), themselves borrowings from English block From Hindustani لوک (lok) / लोक (lok, “people, folk”) or Shelta loke (“man”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: blōk, IPA(key): /bləʊk/ (General American) IPA(key): /bloʊk/ Rhymes: -əʊk === Noun === bloke (plural blokes) (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man Coordinate terms: (Britain, informal) blokess, (Australia, New Zealand) sheila (Commonwealth, especially Australia and New Zealand) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype. (Commonwealth, especially UK and Ireland, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment. (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === bloke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Kolbe, Boelk, Koble == Basque == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish bloque. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bloke/ [blo.ke] Rhymes: -oke, -e Hyphenation: blo‧ke === Noun === bloke inan block ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “bloke”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language] “bloke”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005 == Cebuano == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish bloque, from French bloc, from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: blo‧ke IPA(key): /ˈbloke/ [ˈbl̪o.ke] === Noun === bloke a block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance == Tagalog == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish bloque. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbloke/ [ˈbloː.xɛ] Rhymes: -oke Syllabification: blo‧ke === Noun === bloke (Baybayin spelling ᜊ᜔ᜎᜓᜃᜒ) block; solid piece (of wood, stone, etc.) Synonyms: pag-unlad, progreso, adelanto city block faction; bloc; group ==== Derived terms ==== magbloke == Turkish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French bloqué, past participle of bloquer. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bloˈce/ Hyphenation: blo‧ke === Adjective === bloke blocked ==== Derived terms ====