Bloke vs Guys - What's the difference?
bloke | guys | Synonyms |
(informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street.
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* 2000 , Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble ,
(UK) a man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
An anglophone man.
(Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
* 2000 May 5, Belinda Luscombe, “
(colloquial) Persons, irrespective of their genders.
(colloquial) A form of address for a group of male persons or a group of mixed male and female persons.
Guys is a synonym of bloke.
As nouns the difference between bloke and guys
is that bloke is a man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street while guys is plural of lang=en.As a proper noun Guys is
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English
Noun
(en noun)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.
lyrics of 1930, 31 and 33 versions,
- She messed around with a bloke named Smoky.
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- 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.
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- As her current bloke was turning out better than expected, I didn't see much of her lately.
Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus”, Time :
- ‘The Bloke'’ is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. ¶ Most of all, the ' Bloke does not whinge.
Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (ordinary man) sheila (New Zealand)Derived terms
* blokey, blokeishguys
English
Noun
(head) plural- Who are those guys ?
- Hi guys !