The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers
bloke
noun: a person of one kind (see more)
A man.
People think about this man like this: This man is someone like many other people. This man is someone like me. He can do many good things. At many times, he does many good things for other people, not because he wanted them to think good things about him. People can think many good things about this man.'
People think it is good to be someone like this.
Note
'Bloke' is often associated with the working class, however it is used by people of all classes to refer to people of their own class, thus this social hierarchy element has not been included here. The related adjective 'blokey' is somewhat different in implications, in that it contains more of the 'masculine' elements than the noun does i.e. 'this person does many things in the same way as many men do things. When people look at this man, they can say 'this man is a man like many other men.''"His appearances were extremely helpful in convincing Australia he was a normal down-to-earth bloke and not a robotic ball of barely-repressed rage."
"When someone says “bloke”, we know he’s talking about a real person. And when you hear “bloke”, the adjective “good” can’t be far off."
"I've just come back from New York this morning and was saying to the Americans last week, this is what Australia's like... your normal bloke, your neighbour becomes the Prime Minister,' said Evelyn McDonnell, who lives with her husband Barry across the road from Mr Morrison in Port Hacking. 'You don't get that over there, they're all held on these really high pedestals."
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