Bloke

Definition: Bloke

Bloke

Noun

1. (informal) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bloke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Bloke

Crosswords: Bloke

Tagalog (block).

Look, Iris, the world does not revolve round your body - this bloke Gallileo proved it: it revolves around the sun. (The Sweeney; writing credit: Brian Faull; John Martin)

The old bloke died and left me four thousand pounds a year in his blommin' will (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner)

And do you always imagine doing it face to face with a bloke, or could you take a man from behind (The Office; writing credit: Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant)

A bloke in my position has to wonder how long the country can afford him. If we don't get the economy right, people like me are gonna be in trouble (Keeping Up Appearances; writing credit: Roy Clarke)

Last bloke in that bed had the same thing (Carry on Doctor; writing credit: Talbot Rothwell)

You'll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud (Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

The Drummer and the Bloke (1968)

A Real Bloke (1935)

The Sentimental Bloke (1932)

Harry Enfield Presents Tim Nice But Dim's Guide to Being a Bloody Nice Bloke (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Sentimental Bloke (reference)

• Andrei Belyi o Bloke : vospominaniia, stat§i, dnevniki, rechi (reference)

• Cobbers : the complete lives and loves of the bloke and Ginger Mick (reference)

• More than a sentimental bloke (reference)

• Nice Bloke (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bloke on Bloke [IMPORT] (reference)

• Welcome To The New Millennium, Bloke! (reference)

• William Bloke (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "bloke": bloke-in-the-pub, bloke-ishness, bloke-ism.

Containing "bloke": i'm-just-an-ordinary-bloke-like-you.

Albanian

tip (case, cast, character, cove, cuss, denomination, dog, dude, exemplar, exponent, guy, joker, kind, lad, merchant, model, nature, persona, sort, type). (various references)

Arabic 

‏رجل (boy, buck, chap, gent, go on foot, lad, leg, male, man, pin), ‏شخص (baby, body, boy, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, embody, guy, individual, joker, man, person, personate, scout, sort, specimen, spirit, stick). (various references)

Bulgarian 

човек (being, bod, body, fellow, figure, guy, head, homo, human, human being, individual, Jack, Johnny, joker, liver, Mac, man, person, piece, subject, thing, type, Wight, you). (various references)

Chinese 

小子 (an implolite term for a person; bloke, boy). (various references)

Czech

kluk (boy, fellow, guy, Jack, knave, lad, son, youngster), chlápek (bird, blighter, chap, cove, dog). (various references)

Finnish

heppuli (guy), heppu (guy). (various references)

French

type (blighter), mec, homme, gonze. (various references)

German

Bursche (attendant, boy, chap, dwarf, fellow, guy, kid, lad, laddie, orderly, servant). (various references)

Greek 

μάγκασ (crafty, guttersnipe, hoodlum, hooligan, smart), τύποσ (chap, description, figure, form, formula, norm, press, print, stamp, type). (various references)

Hungarian

pasas (beggar, cat, chap, chappie, chappy, coon, cove, cuss, feller, gent, guy, joker, perisher), krapek (bleeder, cat, dude, sod, yob, yobbo), hapsi (bastard, chappie, chappy, cove, covey, guy, jock, sod), faszi (guy). (various references)

Italian

tipo (chap, codger, customer, fellow, guy, Jack, kind, manner, model, pattern, sort, specimen, strain, type), individuo (beggar, chap, fellow, guy, head, individual, self). (various references)

Manx

fer (chap, fellow, gentleman, individual, male, man). (various references)

Pig Latin

okeblay.(various references)

Portuguese

sujeito (beggar, bound, bugger, cod, guy, individual, lazarus, subject), indivíduo (anybody, beggar, busybody, chap, civy, customer, fellow, joker, josser, lad, laddie, lazarus, man, poll, selfhood, specimen, subject). (various references)

Romanian

tip (bird, card, cast, category, chap, character, cove, cuss, customer, design, devil, fellow, guy, Johnny, joker, kidney, letter, make, merchant, model, norm, sort, soul, specimen, standard, symbol, type), individ (bird, body, character, cove, cuss, customer, devil, dog, egg, fellow, guy, individual, individuality, man, merchant, odd fish, party, perisher, person, queer fish, self, specimen, strange fish, subject, Wight). (various references)

Russian 

парень (bod 1, boy, chap, cove, cuss, duck, fellow, gossoon, guy, josser, kid, lad, loon, scout, swain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čovek (chap, fellow, homo, human, human being, jack, man, maun, one, person, stiff, walla). (various references)

Spanish

tipo de (cuss, gender, norm, sort of), individuo (bird, guy, individual, party, perisher, single). (various references)

Swedish

kille (boy, cat, chap, chappie, dog, fellow, guy, Joe, Johnny, joker, josser, kid, scout, Walla, Wallah, yob). (various references)

Thai

ผู้ชาย (geezer, man, masculine), คน (being, bod). (various references)

Turkish

herifçioğlu, herif (blighter, bozo, bugger, Buster, cove, cuss, customer, Dick, dog, fellow, guy, Johnny, josser, mug, sod, stooge, varlet). (various references)

Ukrainian

суб'єкт (perisher), тип (cast, character, denomination, exemplar, model, perisher, phylum, type, waffle). (various references)

ploc. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bloke": blokes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bloke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beloki, Bioko, blake, Blakea, bleek, bloak, blocke, Blocul, blode, bloe, bloge, blok, blokey, blokr, blokre, blome, blomet, blone, blook, blork, blose, Blote, blove, blowe, Bloxen, bloyeti, bloze, Blumka, boek, Bokek, boki, Bolca, bolcek, bolk, boloe, bolve, booke, bpoke, clokke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bole, koel, lobe.

-2 letters: bel, elk, kob, lek, lob, obe, oke, ole.

-3 letters: be, bo, el, lo, oe.

+1 letter: blokes.

+2 letters: becloak, blesbok, blocked, blocker, booklet, bowlike, boxlike, hoblike, obelisk.

+3 letters: abelmosk, becloaks, blesboks, blockade, blockage, blockers, blockier, bluebook, boatlike, bookable, booklets, booklice, booklore, bowllike, brokenly, brooklet, comblike, cookable, kabeljou, keelboat, kilobase, kilobyte, knoblike, knowable, lockable, mockable, obelisks, smokable, tomblike, womblike, workable.

+4 letters: abelmosks, adobelike, anklebone, becloaked, blockaded, blockader, blockades, blockages, blockhead, blockiest, bluebooks, boardlike, booklores, booklouse, bookplate, bookshelf, brooklets, cellblock, cocklebur, kabeljous, keelboats, kilobases, kilobytes, knobblier, lockboxes, outbulked, revokable, shockable, shoeblack, skimobile, smokeable, stylebook, unblocked, worktable.