Noun

(en noun)

(informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street.

* 1930 , , 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 , , lyrics of 1930, 31 and 33 versions,

She messed around with a bloke named Smoky.

* 1958 , , 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 didn't see much of her lately.

(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, “ 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.

Noun

(en noun)

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, passage=TO ALL SVCH AS HAVE receiued either pleasure or profite by the two former published bookes of this Argument: And to all beside, that desire to know the wonderfull slie deuises of this hellish crew of Conny-catchers. ] }}

* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Scene 10: Enter five or sixe Protestants with bookes , and kneele together. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1606, author=Anonymous, title=A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III, chapter=Sir Gyles Goosecappe, edition= citation

, passage=Now in good truth I wood theis bookes were burnd That rapp men from their friends before their time, How does my uncles friend, no other name I need give him, to whom I give my selfe. }}