Boy vs Bloke - What's the difference?

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Boy is a related term of bloke.

As a noun boy

is .

As a verb bloke is

boy

English

Alternative forms

* boi (Jamaican English)

Noun

(en noun)

Male servant.

# (now, rare) A male servant, in general senses.

# (historical, now, offensive) A non-white male servant, as used especially by whites in a colonial settlement etc.

When the 'dipenda' (independence movement) in Belgian Congo turned violent, the white colonisers' often materially privileged black domestic boys were mistrusted and often abused as collaborators.

# (now, offensive) A non-white male.

(obsolete) A lower-class or disreputable man; a worthless person.

* 1608 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act I Scene 4:

Dost thou call me fool, boy ?

A young male human; a male child or young adult.

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A son.

* (Walter Scott)

My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee.

A man of any age, used as a friendly diminutive, or of a man who is merely younger than the speaker.

* 1977 , (Bert Newton), to (Mohammed Ali) at the 1977 Logie Awards:^{[http://www.abc.net.au/thingo/txt/s1088100.htm]}

I like the boy .

(colloquial) A male friend or fellow of some group, community etc. (mainly used in the plural).

(US, slang) Heroin.

Synonyms

* brat * knave * lad * squirt * youngster * youth * See also

Antonyms

* (young male) girl

Derived terms

* altar boy * attaboy * bad boy * bagboy * ball boy, ballboy * bat boy * b-boy * bell boy, bellboy * best boy * big boys * blue-eyed boy * boi * boy band * boy-bishop * boy crazy * boyfriend * boy genius * boyhood * boy howdy * boyish * boyism * boykin (diminutive) * boy oh boy * boy racer * boys and their toys * boy scout * boytjie * boy toy * boys will be boys * boy wonder * bully boy * bum boy * cabin boy * city boy * college boy * copy boy * cowboy * delivery boy * doughboy * farm boy * frat boy * golden boy * homeboy * house boy * lawnboy * little boy * lowboy * mama’s boy]], [[mummy's boy, mummy’s boy * my boy * nancy boy * newsboy * office boy * oh boy * old boy * our boy * page boy, pageboy * paper boy, paperboy * pizza boy, pizzaboy * pool boy * poor boy, po’ boy * poster boy * potboy * pretty boy * rent boy * sailor boy * sea boy * shop boy * sonny boy * stableboy * tallboy * Teddy boy * tomboy * traffic boy * water boy * whipping boy * whiteboy, white boy * wide boy * wolf boy * yellow boy, yellow-boy

Descendants

* Irish English: boyo * Vietnamese:

Interjection

(en interjection)

Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

Verb

(en verb)

to use the word boy to refer to someone

to act as a boy (qualifier, in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage)

* Shakespeare

I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.

References

Statistics

Anagrams

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bloke

English

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.

Synonyms

* See also

Coordinate terms

* (ordinary man) sheila (New Zealand)

Derived terms

* blokey, blokeish

References

Australian slang