different between bloke vs blote

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.

English

Verb

blote (third-person singular simple present blotes, present participle bloting, simple past and past participle bloted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

Anagrams

• Bolte, betol, botel

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse blóta, from Proto-Germanic *bl?tan?, cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????? (bl?tan, “to worship”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?lo?d??]

Verb

blote (imperative blot, infinitive at blote, present tense bloter, past tense blotede, perfect tense har blotet)

1. to make a sacrifice (especially a blood sacrifice by heathens)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

blote

1. Inflected form of bloot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

blote (present tense blotar, past tense blota, past participle blota, passive infinitive blotast, present participle blotande, imperative blot)

1. Alternative form of blóte
2. Alternative form of blòte

Noun

blote m or f (definite singular bloten or blota, indefinite plural blotar or bloter, definite plural blotane or blotene)

1. Alternative form of blòte