different between bloke vs ringneck
bloke
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)
- (Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
- (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
- (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
- (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.
- (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
- A block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
bloke From the web:
- what bloke means
- what's blokes advice
- blokes what does it mean
- bloke what language
- bloke what is the definition
- blokey what does it mean
- what does bloke mean in english
- what does bloke mean in british slang
ringneck
English
Etymology
From ring +? neck.
Noun
ringneck (plural ringnecks)
- Any of several unrelated birds that have a ringed neck.
Related terms
- ring-neck
Anagrams
- neck ring
ringneck From the web:
- what ringneck parrots eat
- what ringneck snakes eat
- what do ringneck doves eat
- what do ringneck parakeets eat
- what do ringneck pheasants eat
- what does ringneck snakes eat
- what do ringneck ducks eat
- what do ringneck snakes eat in captivity
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- bloke vs ringneck
- sunbirds vs dunbirds
- platonick vs taxonomy
- tonick vs taxonomy
- tonics vs tonicks
- rightwards vs rightards
- rightward vs rightard
- nightward vs rightward
- right vs rightwards
- mobbish vs taxonomy
- bobbish vs mobbish
- mobbish vs mobbism
- mobbish vs mobbist
- oikish vs taxonomy
- orkish vs oikish
- oikish vs likish
- amoeba vs entameba
- entamoeba vs entameba
- amoebas vs amebas
- amoebalike vs amebalike