bloke — "(British, informal) man, fellow" chap — "(British) fellow. Origin of chap: chapman" lad — "a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity" So, it seems, that lad can be related only to a young person. While chap and bloke to any male person. My British fellow said: Chap is more delicate; bloke is rougher a bit.

Mar 26, 2023 · The general guidance is to use gender-neutral terms in the workplace. This avoids discriminating against non-binary people, and means you don't have to ascertain everybody's gender beforehand.

Jan 25, 2019 · That is why you often hear middle class Englishmen using ‘guy’; they want to appear classless but cannot bring themselves to use the more working class ‘bloke’. The really derogatory terms for women are the ones which make distinctions on the basis of being lower class (chav), loose morals (slapper, slag), age (old broiler, trout) and ...

Nov 6, 2012 · In 2011, following the term's offhand use in a March 26 article appearing in The Spectator ("white-coated Jap bloke"), the Minister of the Japanese Embassy in London protested that "most Japanese people find the word ‘Jap’ offensive, irrespective of the circumstances in which it is used."

May 27, 2011 · In Dutch, we have gozer, which is lower/middle-class slang for "bloke, chap, fellow, dude, guy". However, the Dutch word comes from Yiddish chosen, groom! Probably some kind of cross-pollination going on. –

May 23, 2023 · Here's an example of the phrase "to boot": My wife made a disgusting looking dinner, and it tasted awful to boot! The implication of the "to boot" is that the fact that the dinner tasted awful wa...

Dec 20, 2014 · Here, geezer is a British slang for a young lad, bloke (can be an equivalent of dude in AmE). "The Hostage" and "Make me an Offer" were the famous movies of that time. "The Hostage" and "Make me an Offer" were the famous movies of that time.

May 7, 2011 · this is a good guess, but several words in the semantic field around "beating" may mean "to offer, to sell". I cannot think of one specifically, and I don't see reliable cognates for to flog that would inform the opinion. *pleHg- "to beat, strike" might suggest a relation to Plakat "poster", plaquette, in line with my first guess for an analogy with Ger. anschlag (what Luther …

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Aug 4, 2014 · I do not know of any pair of words that have the same meaning and don't think it very likely (except certain alternate spellings and pronuncations of the same word, where even there it means something, except it is about you: your dialect and background, and there are often pragmatic factors at work).