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Definition of blokeish in English: blokeish(also blokish) adjective ˈbləʊkɪʃ British informal Indulging in or relating to stereotypically male behaviour and interests. 〈英,非正式〉(行为、喜好)典型男人的,典型男性的 it is not very blokeish of me, I admit, but I have a passion for shopping Example sentencesExamples - He became known, not for his political beliefs, but for being personable and blokeish, a ‘chat-show Charlie’ who was game for a laugh and up for a ‘sociable’ drink.
- I can be quite blokeish about cars and once, in a moment of extreme folly, bought a BMW that I couldn't afford to run.
- Then he spoils his image as an incurable romantic with a blokish aside.
- Yet he regularly tries too hard to cover this fact up: as if he can conjure up a blokeish persona.
- I'd agree that it is head-and-shoulders above most sitcoms but it follows hackneyed gender traditions (men are blokeish and committment-phobic; women are insecure and needy).
- It's a mixture of blokeish culture and the perils of overmuch specialisation too young.
- It's a nice room, although the curtains are similarly from a time that land forgot, and I think that, while the underlying image is practical, it's not too blokeish.
- Their preoccupation with beauty suggests an idealised feminine; their tunes are blokeish.
- Her outfits and blokish humour are viewed with muted approval, although even she is eventually portrayed as self-serving and unreliable.
- It is rock music that sounds blokeish, yet prematurely middle-aged, drained of subversion or the capacity to shock.
- Also loving the slightly blokeish way she is sitting.
- When we meet to run through the set questions, with the tape recorder on the table, he is more cautious, the blokeish candour has disappeared.
- Even if its response is often to dig itself in deeper, it finds the need to overlay itself with the protective mantle of blokeish good humour.
- While he is always friendly, even jovial in a blokeish high-fiving way (his English having got better as my French gets worse) he tends to be infuriatingly circumspect and diplomatic.
- And if they're not blokish, they say, ‘Well, we might as well talk to our friends in the pub.'’
Derivativesnoun British informal For a band who have consistently cultivated an aura of mystique, the amiable blokeishness of much of the set is both unexpected and reassuring. Example sentencesExamples - There is a real sense of blokishness on some blogs that doesn't appeal to me and I'm definitely not a fan of bear-pit blogging.
- Politicians today flaunt their club allegiances as badges of authenticity and ordinary blokishness.
- I found my scepticism about his blokeishness fall away, to be replaced by a desire to cheer him on.
- Surely it is the essence of blokeishness not to dress up.
- But some reviewers said I had an unpleasant blokishness about me and it's simply not true.
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