Bloke vs Booke - What's the difference?
bloke | booke |
(informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street.
* 1930 , , 2006, Overlook Press,
* 1931 , ,
* 1958 , ,
* 2000 , Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble ,
(UK) a man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
An anglophone man.
(Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
* 2000 May 5, Belinda Luscombe, “
Australian slang
* {{quote-book, year=1592, author=R. G., title=The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592), chapter=, edition=
, passage=TO ALL SVCH AS HAVE receiued either pleasure or profite by the two former published bookes of this Argument: And to all beside, that desire to know the wonderfull slie deuises of this hellish crew of Conny-catchers. ] }}
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Scene 10: Enter five or sixe Protestants with bookes , and kneele together. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1606, author=Anonymous, title=A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III, chapter=Sir Gyles Goosecappe, edition=
, passage=Now in good truth I wood theis bookes were burnd That rapp men from their friends before their time, How does my uncles friend, no other name I need give him, to whom I give my selfe. }}
As verbs the difference between bloke and booke
is that bloke is while booke is .bloke
English
Noun
(en noun)page 235,
- The door flew open, and there was a bloke' with spectacles on his face and all round the spectacles an expression of strained anguish. A ' bloke with a secret sorrow.
lyrics of 1930, 31 and 33 versions,
- She messed around with a bloke named Smoky.
page 281,
- It was a Cockney bloke' who had never seen a cow till he came inside. Cragg said it took some ' blokes like that, and city fellows are the worse.
page 19,
- As her current bloke was turning out better than expected, I didn't see much of her lately.
Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus”, Time :
- ‘The Bloke'’ is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. ¶ Most of all, the ' Bloke does not whinge.
Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (ordinary man) sheila (New Zealand)Derived terms
* blokey, blokeishReferences
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