Meaning

5 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal)A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.

    Kerl

    мужи́кmužík, челове́кčelovék, типtip

    a boy or man

  2. (Australia, Commonwealth, New Zealand, especially)An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.

  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, especially, informal)A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.

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

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

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Did you meet any fit blokes?

    deHast du irgendwelche sexy Typen kennengelernt? — Waldelfe

  2. Outside the nightclub were two bouncers, blokes like bears.

    deVor dem Nachtclub waren zwei Türsteher, Typen wie Bären. — Laoan

  3. There aren't many blokes that nice!

    deEs gibt nicht viele Kerle, die so nett sind! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Blokes who knit are a rarity.

    ruПарни, которые вяжут, - редкость. — amanshi

    deMänner, die stricken, sind eine Rarität. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Tom is one of the nicest blokes I've ever met.

    deTom ist einer der nettesten Typen, die ich je getroffen habe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(Britain, informal) fellow, man:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(Britain, informal) fellow, man:

Origin

Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized:

Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized:

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