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See also: blöke and bloķē

bloke ‎(plural blokes)

(informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1851.]
- 1930, P. G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves, 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, Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Minnie the Moocher, lyrics of 1930, 31 and 33 versions,
  She messed around with a bloke named Smoky.
- 1958, Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, 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.
(Britain) a man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
(now chiefly Quebec, colloquial) 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. […] The Classic Bloke is not a voluble beast. His speech patterns are best described as infrequent but colorful. […] ¶ The Bloke is pragmatic rather than classy. […] ¶ Most of all, the Bloke does not whinge.

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Borrowing from Spanish bloque, from French bloc, from Middle French bloc ‎(“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc ‎(“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok ‎(“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok ‎(“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką ‎(“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- ‎(“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).

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