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Bloke vs Deadman - What's the difference?

bloke | deadman |

As nouns the difference between bloke and deadman

is that bloke is (informal) a man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street while deadman is (obsolete) a corpse.

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

    deadman

    English

    Noun

    (deadmen)
  • (obsolete) A corpse
    • ''There is no deadman to be found at Deadman's Curve.
  • (construction) A long object, often a timber or log, buried to serve as an anchor for a wall or for stays.''
    • The building code requires deadmen for retaining walls.
  • (rail transport) A cutout device with operates in the event of driver incapacity.