What's the difference between bloke and flyer?

Bloke


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (2) The best thing we can do is to make the effort to empathise with the bloke driving or the bloke in the back.
  • (3) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (4) Pledge news: harsh • 26 Jan , Darragh MacAnthony, Peterborough chairman on the "incredibly harsh" abuse by fans of manager Mark Cooper: "Nobody has given the bloke a chance.
  • (5) It couldn't have happened to a more deserving bloke.
  • (6) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
  • (7) 10.15am BST May the fairer sex be with you Last night's big news from Hollywood was that Star Wars Episode VII has finally added some more women to its bloke-heavy cast list, welcoming Lupita Nyong'o and Gwendoline Christie AKA Brienne of Tarth to a galaxy far, far away.
  • (8) Jan Jan is actually not a bad tune, with distinctive Anastacia-ish vocals being the highlight (alongside a fat bloke formation dancing in the video).
  • (9) Even after being ambushed by anti-terror cops when panicked Londoners reported "a bloke pretending to be a Muslim woman", I didn't complain.
  • (10) I would not say this about all politicians, but he is genuinely a thoroughly nice bloke.” But neither does he want to be too closely tied to a Corbyn project over which he has little or no control.
  • (11) At the risk of of sounding like, well, a girl, I have to say I found it a bit blokely with far too many gimmicks (Lawro's hair?
  • (12) She said: "We all know what it's like: you are at freshers' week, you meet up with a dodgy bloke and you do things that you regret.
  • (13) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
  • (14) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
  • (15) And I raise that by saying that you’ve been criticised over a debt tax which is a tax – there’s no use being semantic and you’re not a bloke who deals in semantics – but as I understand that this was the only way that you could grab people like yourself and politicians in it so you could say, “Look I’m putting my hand in my pocket”.
  • (16) I asked a Tunisian bloke next to me in the bar where I was watching the match.
  • (17) It would be nice if we could say this was because the media had learned their lessons and recognised the importance of scientific evidence, rather than one bloke's hunch.
  • (18) There are many more opportunities for women now, but you are up against some very competitive blokes.
  • (19) In terms of the politics: well, Abbott will get the thumbs up from blokes who feel emasculated by the thought police.
  • (20) So we now know that the riders follow the bloke on the electric bicycle – known as a derny – building up speed as they go before said bloke moves into the centre with two-and-a-half laps to go, leaving the riders to sprint to the finish.

Flyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One that uses wings.
  • (n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
  • (n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
  • (n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
  • (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
  • (n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
  • (n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
  • (2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (3) I suppose I may be one of the most frequent flyers on the NHS, and therefore one of your best customers.
  • (4) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
  • (5) Two aircrew members lost a total of 9 "duties not to include flying" (DNIF) days: one flyer was grounded for 1 d with a corneal abrasion and another for 8 d with epithelial microcysts.
  • (6) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (7) Got warrants from Beverly Hills?” the flyer asked.
  • (8) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (9) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
  • (10) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
  • (11) After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
  • (12) I was a nervous flyer so he had the plane done out like a sweetshop.
  • (13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
  • (14) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
  • (15) He didn't mind telling you, for instance, that his wife's family had been interned in camps in the country to which they were now returning; if he saw someone handing out flyers in the street, he would delve deeply into their purposes; he was not shy of doorstepping ancient members of the KGB.
  • (16) The Bundesliga high flyers unveiled Hernández at a press conference on Tuesday and he said: “I want to go back to feeling important and happy.
  • (17) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Only buy newspapers, magazines, books, toilet paper and copier paper made from recycled materials 0.1 Block direct mail, choose electronic bills and statements, buy secondhand books and share papers 0.1 'I'm a frequent flyer.
  • (18) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
  • (19) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
  • (20) We would walk around and see flyers that said stuff like, ‘Video is out now text 831 to 7988’ or whatever the number was.