bloke

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Needless to say the bloke was a bit pissed off but he just shouldn't bullshit a bullshitter!

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  • Do you think you can find him alone If this bloke is as fine and uppity as Miss Winters said 'e was, I'll march straight up to 'is fancy 'ouse and fetch 'im. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • God knows how Taffy had done it, Dillon thought… the bloke was asbestos, somehow finding them in there and smashing his way out through a rear window, bringing them out alive with hardly a scorch mark apiece. —  Also by Lynda La Plante
  • When Alan Bond erected Observation City (OK, call me immature and I'll answer, but really, the bloke was a rampant sky rooter), his vision was to push over the entire beachfront strip and replace the row of hamburger joints, pool and games dens that had defined Scarbs for generations with a Surfer's Paradise-style battery of high-rise phalluses. —  On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • This bloke was a straight shooter who would call it as he saw it, even though his daughter worked for unveiled to the world on Vanity Fair's website yesterday and it is definitely the most illuminating portrait of Murdoch we've even seen. —  Crikey » Canberra Calling
  • UMMM BLUES seeing as the bloke will be on A FREE we wouldnt need money —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
 

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Also spelled bloak; a word of obscure origin.
 

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/bloʊk/
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