Whats the difference between bloke, chap and lad? 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
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word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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
What do you call the male equivalent to Cougar (woman)? What is the male equivalent to the term quot;cougar quot;? Clarifying The term quot;cougar quot; describes an older woman seeking younger men So a male equivalent would be an older man seek
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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
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How derogatory is “chicks” when used to refer to women? A comment in “What is a feminine version of guys?” got me wondering: how derogatory is the use of chicks to refer to women (either in general, or to a specific group) To me (I'm a man), it was quite
offensive language - Is Jap still considered an ethnic slur . . . 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 "
Whats the origin of the word geezer? - English Language Usage . . . 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 –
What is the origin of BrEng ‘bird’ meaning “young woman”? 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