slang. Also bloak. [Origin unknown: Ogilvie compares ‘Gypsy and Hind. loke a man.’] Man, fellow.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 387/1 (Hoppe). If we met an ‘old bloke’ (man) we ‘propped him’ (knocked him down), and robbed him.
1862. Kingsley, in Macm. Mag., Dec., 96. Little better than blokes and boodles after all.
1865. Miss Braddon, in Temple Bar, XIII. 483. The society of the aged bloke is apt to pall upon the youthful intellect.
