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BLOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloke mean? 

BLOKE (noun)
  The noun BLOKE has 1 sense:

1. a boy or manplay

  Familiarity information: BLOKE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLOKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy or man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad

Context example:

he's a good bloke

Hypernyms ("bloke" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bloke"):

dog (informal term for a man)


 Context examples 


I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore that they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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