re: #295 Alyosha

You can get away with calling a girl a ‘sheila’ without raising too many eyebrows if you live in a rural area of if you’re a tradie (someone trade-skilled).
My mother told me to refer to a girl or woman as sheila was disrespectful since it was an overly generic term. I’d now compare it to the word ‘chick’.
A bloke is still a bloke. Unless he’s a ‘geezer’. Though that term, too, has fallen into disuse.

Isn’t Sheila an Aussie term? (I may be getting parts of the Queen’s countries mixed up here).