bloke
»This bloke I have fallen on looks a bit sick.» (P. Kelver II. 237. 2.)
A plumber.
»I wouldn’t have them know as ’ow I was one of them college blokes.» (Novel Notes 203. 23.)
Uneducated young Londoner.
Bloke (or bloak) is London-cant for man, fellow. (Possibly, the word is derived from the Dutch blok, Germ. Block, though, if this is the case, it is difficult to account for the long vowel.)