blokeish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "After we say goodbye, I walk past [Jeremy] Clarkson's table, steaming with carefree, blokeish energy."
Etymology
Etymology tree English bloke Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English blokeish From bloke + -ish.
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Informal