Where does “blokeishly” come from?
blokeishly (English) comes from English blokeish, from English bloke, from Irish ploc, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
blokeishly (English): In a blokeish manner
Ancestry of “blokeishly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | blokeish | Characteristic or typical of a bloke |
| 2 | English | bloke | An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent... |
| 3 | Irish | ploc | large, stubborn person |
| 4 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 5 | French | Bloc | — |
| 6 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 7 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 8 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 9 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 10 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |