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▪ I. bloke, n. slang.|bləʊk|
Also bloak.
[Origin unknown: Ogilvie compares ‘Gypsy and Hind. loke a man.’]
a. Man, fellow.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 397 (Hoppe) If we met an old bloke we propped him. 1862Kingsley in Macm. Mag. Dec. 96 Little better than blokes and boodles after all. 1865M. E. Braddon in Temple Bar XIII. 483 The society of the aged bloke is apt to pall upon the youthful intellect.
b. Naval slang. The ship's commander.
1914‘Watch-keeper’ Five Minutes to One Bell 7 Also the sailor will come to say of you, ‘Oh! once you're taken before 'Im, you're safe to see ‘The Bloke’ in the morning.’ 1919W. Lang Sea Lawyer's Log i. vi. 69 If you gets noisy and boisterous-like you sees the Bloke in the morning. 1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 33 Bloke..the traditional Lower-Deck name for a warship's Commander and Executive Officer.
▪ II. † bloke, v. Obs.
In 3 blokien.
[Obs. southern form of blake v., OE. blácian, f. blác pale: see bloke, bloc a.]
intr. To turn pale.
c1250Lay. 19799 His neb bi-gan to blokie [1205 his neb bigon to blakien]. c1275Signs Death in O.E. Misc. 101 [H]wenne þin heou blokeþ And þi strengþe wokeþ. |