Where does “blokeyness” come from?
blokeyness (English) comes from English blokey, 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.
blokeyness (English): The state or quality of being blokey
Definitions
- The state or quality of being blokey
Ancestry of “blokeyness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | blokey | Associated with the mainstream male culture,... |
| 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 |