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Manon vs Bloke - What's the difference?

manon | bloke |

As nouns the difference between manon and bloke

is that manon is (eo-form of) while bloke is (informal) a man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street.

manon

Not English

Manon has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'manon':

minion, minyan, mammon, maneen, mannan

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