bloke

chiefly British
as in guy
an adult male human being a couple of friendly blokes offered to show us the sights of London

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Recent Examples on the Web Indeed, projecting this worry about yourself onto others and being critical of 'femme' blokes. Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024 Isaac’s smiling affability lends the piece a different tone than Donahoe’s bashful bloke demeanor. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023 In addition to Edna Everage and Les Patterson, Humphries also created the satirical character Barry McKenzie, a typical Australian bloke who started off as the hero of a comic strip about Australians in London (Nicholas Garland did the drawings) first published in Private Eye magazine. Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023 Connery could be that bloke, too: rumpled and tweedy rather than immaculate, notably ill at ease pursuing a secret assignation or wearing a wire, and yet still as instinctively defiant of authority — and as lethal with a one-liner — as Bond ever was. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2020 See all Example Sentences for bloke 

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“Bloke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloke. Accessed 21 Oct. 2024.

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