bloke
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bloke
First recorded in 1850–55; origin uncertain
Vocabulary lists containing bloke
Example Sentences
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“I really don’t care about that. Joe Bloke is the person I’m interested in. I’m just a hairdresser, nothing else.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020
When a columnist wrote a nasty piece dismissing the First Bloke as a “hipster salty seadog,” he tweeted a picture of himself holding a fish and calling it another bottom feeder.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2018
From Freak or Unique to Ugly Bloke, TFI Friday showed that it shared the same creative DNA as youth TV favourite The Word.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2014
The Bloke like the Chap, Alpha Male, Metrosexual and Ubersexual are terms that have followed, with varying degrees of popularity.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2014
Bloke, blōk, n. a fellow, a man familiarly.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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