What's the difference between "bloke", "chap" and "lad"?
网页2012年12月7日 — 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.
What is the male equivalent of the 1960's slang "bird", meaning a …
网页2019年1月25日 — 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 ...
Feminine Forms for chaps and blokes [duplicate]
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What does "Chap" when it describes a person? [closed]
网页2020年2月6日 — The only dictionary that adds a caveat about this sense being rather old-fashioned is Wiktionary: chap (plural chaps) (dated outside Britain and Australia)
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
网页Among many of my friends (mostly 20-somethings, geeky, scattered throughout UK/US/Canada, including a couple of Californians), dude as a form of address is completely gender-neutral.
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
网页2011年5月27日 — 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. –
offensive language - Is 'Jap' still considered an ethnic slur ...
网页2012年11月6日 — 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."
What is the origin of the British "guv"? Is it still used colloquially ...
网页2011年2月27日 — Apologies for the resurrection... The term 'guv' or 'governor' is most commonly used for a reason by manual tradespeople, to denote the person paying their bill, or the person who orders and accepts their work, to distinguish from the tenant, the property's legal owner, and so on.
Why do we say "to boot"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
网页2023年5月23日 — 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 ...
'Off of' versus 'from' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
网页It used to be that bloke off the telly but it does seem to have morphed in to that bloke off of the telly these days. But it only seems to work for some things that bloke off of the German team ... doesn't work for me, from works OK. –