bloke
suomi-englanti sanakirjabloke englannista suomeksi
kaveri, jätkä
bloke englanniksi
(senseid) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a on the street. (defdate)
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(quote-book)|year=1847|volume=III (volume I, Second Series)|page=66|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8gBAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA66|column=1|oclc=6338680|passage=He accordingly opened it letter, and read as follows:– "Tim put on the tats yesterday and went out a durry-nakin on the shadows, gadding a hoof. He buzzed a bloak and a shakester of a yack and a skin. (..)" (..) we will lay before our readers a translation of the slang document:– "Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse. (..)"
(quote-book)|year=1892|page=177|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SGpIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177|oclc=6238593|passage=Now I tell yer straight, I don't call it square for two big bloaks like us to tackle ''i.e.'', steal from one poor woman, and she a widder, and p'raps as 'ard up as us; it isn't English.
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(RQ:Wodehouse Very Good Jeeves)
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(RQ:Orwell Coming Up for Air)
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(RQ:Hornby High Fidelity) sense of humor but look like Woody Allen. Lots of blokes drink too much, lots of blokes behave stupidly when they drive cars, lots of blokes get into fights, or show off about money, or take drugs. I don't do any of these things, really; if I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.
(quote-book)|year=2000|year_published=2004|page=16|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-uP8cG11L4C&pg=PA16|isbn=978-0-09-946337-5|passage=As her current bloke was turning out better than expected, I didn't see much of her lately.
(quote-book) The blokes didn't look like any pop group as I knew them. They were multiracial, knotted of brow, their garb was distinctive, involving a lot of what I later found out to be cheesecloth and kaftans along with ripped, faded denims.
An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
(quote-journal) 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.
(quote-book) In Australia, a bloke is the masculine archetype, associated with the country's national identity. (..) And if you're a good bloke, you'll understand what sportsmanship, and life, should be about. A sense of fair play. For me, it's not a prerequisite to be a law-abiding citizen to be a good bloke. It's about social qualities. It's about being reliable, trustworthy, loyal and true to your beliefs.
A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
(quote-book) Pakeha, and colonial, masculinity is situated in a homosocial environment. This homosociality is both gendered and ethnicized. The kiwi bloke is a Pakeha working man, at home on the football field, in the sands of North Africa, at the pub (but in the public bar). He is a loner, hard, resolute, tall, strong but comradely and supports other men in their toils.
(quote-book) This hypermasculinisation is well-recognised in New Zealand culture. The ‘kiwi bloke’ is celebrated by the nation which leaves little room for the emergence and acceptance of alternative gender identities (..).
(A deck term for) the captain or officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
(quote-book)|location=Torpoint, Cornwall|publisher=Palamanando Publ.|year=1989|isbn=978-0-9514305-0-7|passage=A second green chit and then you get your hat for a talk with the bloke.
An anglophone (English-speaking) man.
(quote-book) I am also called a ''bloke'', or, when the students are pissed at me, ''maudit bloke'' or ''damn bloke'', or a ''tête carrée'', which means ''square head''.
a block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance
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