See do one's block on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "does one's block",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "doing one's block",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "did one's block",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "done one's block",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<does,,did,done>"
},
"expansion": "do one's block (third-person singular simple present does one's block, present participle doing one's block, simple past did one's block, past participle done one's block)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "New Zealand English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
111,
126
]
],
"ref": "1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 113:",
"text": "Ma looked out the door agrily, but a little anxiously as well, because she was sensitive about being overheard doing her block by visitors, especially anyone as important as the local undertaker.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
138,
151
]
],
"ref": "1993, Manning Clark, edited by Michael Cathcart, Manning Clark's History of Australia: Abridged, page 303:",
"text": "Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
49,
63
]
],
"ref": "2003, Dal Stivens, Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a Notable Australian, page 283:",
"text": "He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
2,
14
]
],
"ref": "2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, unnumbered page:",
"text": "I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lose one's temper; to get angry."
],
"id": "en-do_one's_block-en-verb-Q1tRyFuN",
"links": [
[
"lose one's temper",
"lose one's temper"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To lose one's temper; to get angry."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"New-Zealand",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "EN-AU ck1 do one's block.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/34/EN-AU_ck1_do_one%27s_block.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_do_one%27s_block.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/EN-AU_ck1_do_one%27s_block.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "do one's block"
}
{
"etymology_text": "A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "does one's block",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "doing one's block",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "did one's block",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "done one's block",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<does,,did,done>"
},
"expansion": "do one's block (third-person singular simple present does one's block, present participle doing one's block, simple past did one's block, past participle done one's block)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"New Zealand English",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
111,
126
]
],
"ref": "1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 113:",
"text": "Ma looked out the door agrily, but a little anxiously as well, because she was sensitive about being overheard doing her block by visitors, especially anyone as important as the local undertaker.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
138,
151
]
],
"ref": "1993, Manning Clark, edited by Michael Cathcart, Manning Clark's History of Australia: Abridged, page 303:",
"text": "Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
49,
63
]
],
"ref": "2003, Dal Stivens, Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a Notable Australian, page 283:",
"text": "He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
2,
14
]
],
"ref": "2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, unnumbered page:",
"text": "I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lose one's temper; to get angry."
],
"links": [
[
"lose one's temper",
"lose one's temper"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To lose one's temper; to get angry."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"New-Zealand",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "EN-AU ck1 do one's block.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/34/EN-AU_ck1_do_one%27s_block.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_do_one%27s_block.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/EN-AU_ck1_do_one%27s_block.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "do one's block"
}
Download raw JSONL data for do one's block meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.