different between blake vs bloke

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English bl?c (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?k

Adjective

blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, poetic) Pale; wan; sallow; yellow.

Synonyms

• (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid

Etymology 2

From the Middle English bl?ken, the northern reproduction (the form in the south was bl?ken, whence the verb bloke) of the Old English bl?cian (“to become pale”), from bl?c (“shining, white, pale”).

Verb

blake (third-person singular simple present blakes, present participle blaking, simple past and past participle blaked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pale.

Anagrams

• Balke, Kaleb, bleak

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

blake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaken

Anagrams

• balke, kabel

German

Pronunciation

Verb

blake

1. inflection of blaken:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Adjective

blake

1. Alternative form of blak

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.