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- adjective UK, informal Characteristic or typical of a
bloke .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For, with her keen nose for the "blokeish" and the "bonkers", not only is Cambridge's Professor of Classics (and the TLS Classics editor) in mid-season form on a whole range of issues.
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For, with her keen nose for the "blokeish" and the "bonkers", not only is Cambridge's Professor of Classics (and the TLS Classics editor) in mid-season form on a whole range of issues.
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"blokeish" glottal stops in his speech that used to remind us that he was a "pretty straight sort of guy", replaced by a mid-Atlantic twang that was far more user-friendly to his fee-paying audiences around the world.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The BPA shortlists were particularly blokeish in news, business and sport, bearing out the WiJ's statistics showing that editors in these departments are nearly all men.
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• Unloved captains of industry flew into the Swiss resort of Davos for their annual group therapy last night, complete with women execs brought to improve their blokeish image.
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Naked Apes, made by David Aukin's Daybreak Pictures, is set in Leeds and explores the world of three blokeish paramedics in the ambulance service as they ferry alcoholics and revellers to a hospital's accident and emergency department.
Channel 4 orders two new comedy drama series Maggie Brown 2010
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She has many qualities, but blokeish is not one of them.
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With blokeish indie rock in recession, erudite boys with fringes are enjoying their moment in the sun.
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And blokeish, self-pitying aggression is one of the blogosphere's least attractive characteristics.
Frank Field's comments on welfare reform are clever, provocative and perhaps counterproductive 2010
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The two in between share a blokeish anecdote about feminised vehicles they have bestraddled.
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