What is the difference between a bloke and a chap?

[elshiva]

:shrug: I don't know what it is. Please tell me. Thank you.

[flvegan]

1. I thought they were the same, like man/guy.

[elshiva]

2. Maybe. I really don't know.

I thought that maybe chap was more high class than bloke.

[NMDemDist2]

5. yup, that's what I thought too, a chap seems more upper class

a bloke more of a working man

[valerief]

3. One ends with an E. nt

[npk]

4. You've got me.

I don't use either of those words much at all.

[pokerfan]

6. I remember the first time I was called a 'mate' in the UK

Anyway, I think bloke and chap are pretty interchangeable ways to refer to anonymous dudes in the third person.

[leeroysphitz]

7. One is trying to hit you in the face during a brawl, one has your back.

A "Mate" keeps you out such troubles in the first place.

[mr blur]

8. David Beckham is a bloke, Hugh Grant is a chap.

Although they're both enterely disposable worthless human beings.

Charlie Sheen = Bloke
Martin Sheen = Chap

Lloyd Bridges = Bloke
Jeff Bridges = Chap

[meegbear]

9. I asked a friend from the UK on another site ...

"Chap is more the posher end of the scale, bloke is the working class name."

[Aristus]

10. A chap is a bi' o' a swank, sor' of a sweww, innee?

Nah, a bloke, 'ere's a sod yew kin drink wivv, righ'?









...sorry... B-)