“We've laughed at a bloke riding past on a bike and almost falling off as he tried to see through our window.”

“Sometimes when I go, there's a bloke with long hair and he wears a sleeveless vest and trackie bottoms.”

“It would definitely have taken a press gang to get a tall bloke like me to join the Navy in the early 19th century.”

“I found my scepticism about his blokeishness fall away, to be replaced by a desire to cheer him on.”

“For a band who have consistently cultivated an aura of mystique, the amiable blokeishness of much of the set is both unexpected and reassuring.”

“There are few actors who exude such irrepressible down-the-pub blokeishness.”

“They were the type of blokes that my mother dreaded I would end up knocking about with, the type who always had run-ins with the police.”

“Then later I was kidnapped by a gang of four blokes whose faces I can still distinctly remember.”

“I waved greetings in the general direction of the blokes, and smiled at the girls.”