different between aviatrix vs bloke

English

Etymology

aviator +? -trix

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?e?.vi.e?.t??ks/

Noun

aviatrix (plural aviatrices or aviatrixes)

1. (dated) A female aviator.
   • 2018 summary of 2009 film Amelia

     From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things.

Usage notes

• In common usage, the etymologically-consistent plural form aviatrices is over three times more common than the Anglicised plural form aviatrixes.

Synonyms

• aviatress
• aviatrice
• pilotess

Hypernyms

• aviator (male or female)
• flier, flyer (male or female)
• pilot (male or female)

Coordinate terms

• aviator (male)

Translations

References

English

Etymology

Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized:

• Of Celtic origin, such as Irish ploc (“large, stubborn person”, literally “large, round mass”), itself borrowed from English block
• From Hindi [Term?] or Shelta loke (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bl?k, IPA^(key): /bl??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /blo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

bloke (plural blokes)

1. (Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
2. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
4. (Britain, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man

   Antonym: (Britain, informal) blokess
5. (Britain, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
6. (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

Alternative forms

• bloak (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• (Australia, New Zealand): sheila

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• bloke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kolbe

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 *blukk? (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bloke

1. A block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.