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English[edit]
Alternative spellings[edit]
- bloak (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
Unknown, [from 1847]. Hypotheses include:[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bloke (plural blokes)
- (Britain, informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847.]
- 1847, George W. M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (volume 3), G. Vickers, London, page 66:
- He buzzed a bloak and a shakester of a yack and a skin.
- 1930, P. G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves, 2006, Overlook Press, page 235,
- The door flew open, and there was a bloke with spectacles on his face and all round the spectacles an expression of strained anguish. A bloke with a secret sorrow.
- 1931, Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Minnie the Moocher, lyrics of 1930, 31 and 33 versions,
- She messed around with a bloke named Smoky.
- 1958, Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, page 281,
- It was a Cockney bloke who had never seen a cow till he came inside. Cragg said it took some blokes like that, and city fellows are the worse.
- 2000, Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble, page 19,
- As her current bloke was turning out better than expected, I didn't see much of her lately.
- 1847, George W. M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (volume 3), G. Vickers, London, page 66:
- (Britain) a man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
- (now chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone man.
- (Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
- 2000 May 5, Belinda Luscombe, “Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus”, Time:
- ‘The Bloke’ is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. […] The Classic Bloke is not a voluble beast. His speech patterns are best described as infrequent but colorful. […] ¶ The Bloke is pragmatic rather than classy. […] ¶ Most of all, the Bloke does not whinge.
- 2000 May 5, Belinda Luscombe, “Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus”, Time:
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:man
Coordinate terms[edit]
- sheila (New Zealand)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
man
References[edit]
- 2. “bloke” (US) / “bloke” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
Anagrams[edit]
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish bloque, from French bloc, from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from *Old Saxon blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).
Noun[edit]
bloke
- block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
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