An Australian compliment regarding a male who is the type of fellow everyone wants to hang out with and have a beer with. Also, a reliable, helpful, good natured friend.
You can always rely on Ronnie to lend a hand when needed; he's a top bloke!
A term used to describe the toppest of blokes. A "top bloke" is that carefree, gentle, kind, and simply perfect in nearly every way. Top blokes tend to be part Australian and often get told about their hot sister a lot.
Jake: "Hey, did you know Blake is just a top bloke?"
Joel: "Yeah, I heard he gave his lunch to a starving child. What a top bloke. Sister ain't bad too!"
Blake: "Aww thanks guys!"
Aussie slang which defines a male who has overall good social qualities.
The word "bloke" defines a male character while 'top" defines the overall quality of the person.
Mick is a Top Bloke, he got us front seats for the show.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)