BLOKE

chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke

(noun) a boy or man; ā€œthat chap is your hostā€; ā€œthereā€™s a fellow at the doorā€; ā€œheā€™s a likable cussā€; ā€œheā€™s a good blokeā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bloke (plural blokes)

(British, informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847.]

(UK) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.

(UK, naval, slang) (A lower deck term for) the Captain or Executive Officer of a warship, with particular reference to discipline and punishment.

(Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.

(now chiefly, Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone man.

Synonyms

• See man

Coordinate terms

• sheila (Australia/New Zealand)

Anagrams

• Kolbe

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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