Definizione monolingua

bloke

bloke (plural blokes)

1. (informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1851.]
   • 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 didnt see much of her lately.

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

Definizione dizionario bloke

individuo

tipo

uomo

Altri significati:

(Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone man.

(Australian, New Zealand, UK, South African, colloquial) A man (usually in the sense: the typical ‘man on the street’, an ordinary, down-to-earth man, often stressing manhood in a very physical sense); compare sheila (the nearest female equivalent, in Australian slang)

Man