bloke

Meaning

Noun

• An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
• A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
• A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
• (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
• An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

Origin

• Unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized:
• From a modern Celtic language, such as Irish bloc or Scottish Gaelic ploc, themselves borrowings from English block
• From Hindi or Shelta loke.