Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Slang A fellow; a man.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Man; fellow: a term of disrespect or contumely.
Wiktionary
- n. UK a man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
- n. colloquial An anglophone man.
- n. Australia An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a boy or man
Etymologies
- First known usage 1851. Origin unknown. Hypotheses include: (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I get it, this other bloke is a formidable fighter.”
“Vanessa I agree I am pale white as well and I naturally am always cold whilst my bloke is always boiling hot.”
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“And of the bloke is as serious as he has been trying to show himself as, he might say #¤%&¤ to the $$$ and just join a non-profit organisation that fights videogames.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Been avoiding this: Jack has been disbarred
“That brutishly bloody bloke is hell bent on just bashin 'up BHO rather than offerin' an alternative.”
Obama criticizes political motives of health care reform opponents
“So now, sort off, most of my initial “getting to know” this bloke, is reduced to figuring out is he realistic or not.”
“My reaction was fueled by the fact that I honestly thought that the bloke is interested in me too, and then that happened.”
“At the end it turned out that the bloke is some sad sod who has no idea how to communicate with females.”
“Of course, a big heroic bloke from the Stellar Guardians.”
“Once the bloke is done with Stieg I can do him over on LEFT4DED.”
“The start Steve Bruce's team have made to this Premier League season has at least got the bloke from the newsagent's off his twin favourite topics: Len Shackleton and Kevin Keegan, two footballers who represent the yin and yang of his life.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bloke’.
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hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 315 more...
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7thGradeWords
horde, doggedly, retina, frail, jovial, insidious, injudicious, brazen, tentative, hortle, adaver, benign and 91 more...
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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UK Realia
Shoo!, Holly, Pixie, Mr Paws, Shandy, Snowy, Tibbles, Tufty, bull terrier, cocker spaniel, Irish setter, Yorkshire terrier and 1132 more...
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Words of indeterminate origin
Words of which the origin is unknown.
(i.e. we don't know who coined them and they probably aren't derived from another language like Latin)fuddle, conundrum, grouse, scad, pod, culvert, dude, dahoon, bloke, hootenanny, gib, malarky and 5 more...
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What is a man?
Masculine archetypes and stereotypes, glorifications and vilifications.
This is in line with Femmesque, though narrower in its aim. I want simply the loaded nouns that denote a man's...cuckold, provider, rapist, messiah, hero, demon lover, animus, the man in the bu..., loser, mr. right, stud, bloke and 18 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Slang That Hurts The Ears Of Civilise...
Um, well, its a list of slang...DER!
dude, dogs eye and dead..., bloke, snag, breakie, barby (as in b.b.q.), crack (as in like...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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The Motherland! (God Bless the Queen)
Words that remind me of England, which I miss very much.
snog, nappy, wanker, telly, knickers, crumpet, pants, bum, loo, bollocks, stroppy, whinge and 108 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bloke.
Prolagus Bowie and his wife 'lived in a fantasy world', said Finnigan, 'and they created their bisexual fantasy'.
Bowie laughed uproariously when a dinner guest once tapped him on the back and called him 'Angle'. In later years he made a positive fetish of repeating the quip that he and his wife had met while 'fucking the same bloke'.
(Bowie: Loving the Alien, by Christopher Sandford) Mar 11, 2009
frindley Aussie too.
The Sentimental Bloke was a verse novel by poet C.J. Dennis (1876–1938), subsequently turned into a film in 1919 and now regarded as "one of the greatest silent films Australia every produced". But over time the complete film was lost and only shortened versions survived. That is, until a researcher pottering around in an American film archive found original reels catalogued as "The Sentimental Blonde". It had been decided that "bloke" was a misprint!
Oct 12, 2008
johnmperry UK vernacular Jul 17, 2008