bloke

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.

   “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.”

2. isim An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.

   “‘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.”

3. isim A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.

   “Even now he's like this weird guy who comes into my life occasionally and asks me bloke questions. Sport, girls, your future. Even superannuation. Once he even started telling me how important superannuation was. What a dickhead.”

4. isim (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.

   “A second green chit and then you get your hat for a talk with the bloke.”

5. isim An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

   “One cartoon from the period depicted a muscular French Canadian worker being replaced by an effeminate looking English Canadian man on the job. The caption warned, "When we are gone their blokes will come to take our place, to take our homes, and to take our women."”