bloke

Meaning

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
  2. (Australia, Commonwealth, New-Zealand, especially) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, especially, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
  4. (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.
  5. (Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

Synonyms

guy
A1
fellow
B1
chap
B2
dude
A2
fella
B2
lad
B2
man
A1
👨
feller
21k
boy
A1
👦
jack
A2
cuss
22k
blighter
40k
gent
C2
person
A1
🧑‍🦱
pal
B1
geezer
C2
guttersnipe
hombre
20k
homey
C2
hoodlum
23k
hooligan
21k
knave
23k
male
B1
♂️
mate
A2
🧉
norm
C1
pard
plug
C1
press
A2
print
B2
smart
A2
sort
A1
stamp
C1
type
A2
sport
B2
ou
C1
amigo
C1

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brother
A1
👨‍👦
bruce
B2
buster
C1
carl
B1
chum
C2
cobber
comrade
B2
cove
C2
crafty
C2
description
B2
dog
A1
🐕
figure
A2
form
B1
Translations

mec
Kerl
tío
kerel
type
cara
vent
tipo
gars
Bursche
👦
Mann
👨
homem
♂️

τύπος

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bləʊk/
Etymology

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”).

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