English Dictionary

bloke

IPA（発音記号）

/bləʊk/

名詞

オーストラリア英語 イギリス英語 ニュージーランド英語 くだけた表現 俗語 ケベック英語 口語

(Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype. / (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.

日本語の意味

（オーストラリア）独立している典型的な男、あるいはそのような人物の代表例。 / （オーストラリア、英国、ニュージーランドでの非公式な用法）ラディッシュな、あるいは露骨にヘテロセクシュアルな態度をとる男性。

That bloke at the pub is the kind of rugged, self-reliant Australian man who prefers a quiet beer to asking for help.

あのパブにいる男は、助けを求めるより静かにビールを飲むことを好む、たくましく自立した典型的なオーストラリアの男性だ。

意味（1）

(Australia) 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.

意味（2）

(Australia, Britain, New Zealand, informal) 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.

意味（3）

(Britain, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.

He accordingly opened it [a 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. [...] [W]e 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. [...]

意味（4）

(Britain, naval slang) (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.

意味（5）

(chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

[A]n organization called Bloke Quebecois (bloke being a French slang term for Anglophone as well as a reference to the newly formed federal political party, the Bloc Québécois) sold T-shirts that sported the phrase It's Hip to be Square (derived from the popular term for an Anglophone, tête-carrée or square head) and a sign with 401 crossed out. The implication was that hitting the 401 was no longer an option; Anglophones were here to stay – and to contribute.

blokes （ plural ）