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. A man (usually in the sense: the typical ‘man on the street’, an ordinary, down-to-earth man, often stressing manhood in a very physical sense); compare sheila (the nearest female equivalent, in Australian slang)
- n. An anglophone man.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a boy or man
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
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.”
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“That brutishly bloody bloke is hell bent on just bashin 'up BHO rather than offerin' an alternative.”
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“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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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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Slang That Hurts The Ears Of Civilised People
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...
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