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blokeish

adj

Etymology

From bloke + -ish.

  1. borrowed from loke — “man”
  2. derived from block
  3. borrowed from ploc — “large, stubborn person”
  4. borrowed from bloc — “block”
  5. suffixed as blokeish — “bloke + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic or typical of a bloke.

    • 2002 December, Cole Moreton, review of Sinead O'Connor, Sean-nós nua, in Third Way, page 31, The blokeish bar-room ballad ‘Peggy Gordon’ is performed as a tender love song for another woman.
    • He's stuck his hand in his pocket as if he wanted to look more like an ordinary man, or more blokeish.
    • Hailed by a host of younger guitar bands such as Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis, Weller dropped the jazzy noodlings of his previous couple of sets in favour of a raw, blokeish sound.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blokeish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA