Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fellow; a man.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Man; fellow: a term of disrespect or contumely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK a man who behaves in a particularly
laddish or overtlyheterosexual manner. - noun colloquial An
anglophone man. - noun Australia An exemplar of a certain
masculine ,independent male archetype.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boy or man
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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I get it, this other bloke is a formidable fighter.
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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
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At the end it turned out that the bloke is some sad sod who has no idea how to communicate with females.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Of course, a big heroic bloke from the Stellar Guardians.
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My reaction was fueled by the fact that I honestly thought that the bloke is interested in me too, and then that happened.
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At the end it turned out that the bloke is some sad sod who has no idea how to communicate with females.
johnmperry commented on the word bloke
UK vernacular
July 17, 2008
frindley commented on the word bloke
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!
October 12, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word bloke
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)
March 11, 2009