S vs Bloke - What's the difference?
s | bloke |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street.
* 1930 , , 2006, Overlook Press,
* 1931 , ,
* 1958 , ,
* 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, “
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb bloke is
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Translingual
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}bloke
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.
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.
page 19,
- 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.