What is the origin of the word bloke?

Answer 1

Bloke is chiefly British Slang which means a fellow; man.
Bloke" is a slang term for "man," much like "guy" or "dude." It is primarily used in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and is believed to derive from Shelta. It connotes an older age, so to refer to a younger male, one would qualify it as "young bloke" or similar.
While the term, strictly speaking, only means "man", the word "bloke" has been adopted into Australasian culture to mean substantially more than that. The term "good bloke" is often used.
"Blokey" culture is the stereotypically masculine culture found outside of the metropolitan areas of Australia and New Zealand, the culture in which hard work, loyalty and not showing emotion are all valuable attributes.
In Québec, the word bloke is used to specifically refer to anglophones, most often in a derogatory manner. The also-used monicker «Tête carrée» (“square head”) is derived from bloke.

Answer 2

The origin of the word bloke is from mid 19th cent.: from Shelta, a secret language based on changed Irish or Gaelic words.This word means-typical man

Answer 3

One anecdote attributes the origin of the word to a meeting of the Preston Temperance Society in 1833. This society was founded by Joseph Livesey, who was to become a leader of the temperance movement and the author of The Pledge: "We agree to abstain from all liquors of an intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine or ardent spirits, except as medicine." The story attributes the word to Dicky Turner, a member of the society, who in a speech said "I’ll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever". An alternative explanation is that teetotal is simply a duplication of the first 'T' in total (T-total). It is said that as early as 1827 in some Temperance Societies signing a 'T' after one's name signified one's pledge for total abstinence.In England in the 1830s, when the word first entered the lexicon, it was also used in other contexts as an emphasized form of total; a comparable American English locution would be "total with a capital T" (an instance of the "[word] with a capital [word-initial letter]" snowclone). In this context, the word is still used, predominantly in the southern United States.[citation needed] A common misspelling is "tea totaler", implying that the "person prefers to drink tea instead of alcoholic beverages".

Answer 4

It's believed to originate from 'Shelta', which is a language spoken by some Irish Traveller people. That would explain how it ended up as an Australian term.

Answer 5

is bloke a word--who uses that

Answer 6

dictionary.com says that it originated in 1850-1855 in Britain. I always thought it was an Australian word though.