bloke

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He
👨

was such a
🅰️

jolly old
🧓

bloke .

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(Αγγλικός)

(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
(Australia, Commonwealth, New-Zealand, especially) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, especially, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
(Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

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/bləʊk/

Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized: * From a modern Celtic language, such as Irish bloc (“block”) or Scottish Gaelic ploc (“large, stubborn person”, literally “block of wood”), themselves borrowings from English block * From Hindustani لوک (lok) / लोक (lok, “people, folk”) or Shelta loke (“man”).