bloke
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bloke (pl.: blokes)
- (UK, Commonwealth) (familiare) tizio, tipo, un uomo (maschio adulto) qualunque
- What's that bloke doing over there? "Che cosa fa quel tipo lì?"
IPA: /bləʊk/ Ascolta la pronuncia :
incerta. Secondo Douglas Harper, esistono due teorie principali:
- deriva da ploc, una parola celtica che significa "grande persona testarda";
- deriva dalla parola hindi loke ("uomo")
- WordReference.com, Versione on-line Inglese-Italiano
- Il Sansoni, Inglese edizione on-line da "www.corriere.it"
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Dictionary versione on-line
- Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary