English
Noun
Sense: an adult male human
Synonyms
- bloke (UK and Australia, slang)
- [⇒ thesaurus] (often derogatory)
- bro
- broski (slang)
- bruh (slang)
- [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, AAVE)
- chap (dated, UK, slang)
- chappy (dated, UK, slang)
- chield
- cove (archaic, UK)
- covey (dated, UK)
- [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), dawg (AAVE)
- (slang)
- (slang)
- fellow
- gadgie (Scotland, Tyneside, Mackem, Teesside)
- gate (dated, jive talk)
- (slang)
- gloak (Southern England, slang)
- gome (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England)
- guy (colloquial)
- health (obsolete)
- homeboy (AAVE, affectionate)
- (AAVE, affectionate)
- joe
- lede (obsolete)
- nigga (AAVE, possibly highly offensive)
- (uncommon slang)
- omi (Polari)
- (affectionate slang, obsolete)
- punk (dated rare slang)
- rooster (New Zealand, slang)
- seg (archaic or Britain dialectal)
- shalk (obselete or Britain dialectal)
- wallah (dated, UK, slang)
- wer, were (obsolete)
- wye (poetic, obsolete)
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Further reading
- “373. man” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “man” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.