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▪ I. dude, n. U.S.|djuːd|
[A factitious slang term which came into vogue in New York about the beginning of 1883, in connexion with the ‘æsthetic’ craze of that day. Actual origin not recorded.]
1. A name given in ridicule to a man affecting an exaggerated fastidiousness in dress, speech, and deportment, and very particular about what is æsthetically ‘good form’; hence, extended to an exquisite, a dandy, ‘a swell’.
1883Graphic 31 Mar. 319/1 The ‘Dude’ sounds like the name of a bird. It is, on the contrary, American slang for a new kind of American young man..The one object for which the dude exists is to tone down the eccentricities of fashion..The silent, subfusc, subdued ‘dude’ hands down the traditions of good form. 1883North Adams (Mass.) Transcript 24 June, The new coined word ‘dude’..has travelled over the country with a great deal of rapidity since but two months ago it grew into general use in New York. 1883American VII. 151 The social ‘dude’ who affects English dress and the English drawl. 1883Harper's Mag. LXVII. 632 The elderly club dude. 1884in Bryce Amer. Commw. (1888) II. App. 642 Dudes and roughs, civil service reformers and office-holding bosses..join in midnight conferences. 1886A. Lang in Longm. Mag. Mar. 553 Our novels establish a false ideal in the American imagination, and the result is that mysterious being ‘The Dude’.
2. A non-westerner or city-dweller who tours or stays in the west of the U.S., esp. one who spends his holidays on a ranch; a tenderfoot; dude ranch, a ranch which provides entertainment for paying guests and tourists; so dude rancher, one who owns a dude ranch. Chiefly U.S.
1883Prince Albert Times (Saskatchewan) 4 July 5/1 The dude is one of those creatures which are perfectly harmless and are a necessary evil to civilization. 1921Scribner's Mag. Mar. 343/1 ‘Is this Scott Lawson's dude ranch?’ soberly inquired the rider of the pinto. 1924H. Croy R.F.D. No. 3 148 I'm going to put up the finest cattle barn in the state—that is, belonging to a real dirt farmer, not to one of them city dudes. 1940E. Fergusson Our Southwest vi. 108 Every dude rancher saw his profits disappear underground in pumps, pipes, and septic tanks. 1949‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xiii. 116 There was paint galore at the dude ranch, but there was also a tradition of toughness. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 14 May 11. 13/1 It features in abundance the attractions that people who want to live in high, wide and handsome fashion will appreciate in its various seasons—riding, fishing, hunting, golfing, skiing, dude ranches and plush hotels.
Hence ˈdudedom, ˈdudeness, ˈdudery, ˈdudism (nonce-wds.), the state, style, character or manners of a dude; ˈdudess, dudine |-ˈiːn|, a female dude; ˈdudish a., characteristic of a dude; foppish.
1883Philad. Times No. 2892. 2 Not..to encourage the development of the dude or the dudine in his dominion. 1885Weekly New Mexican Rev. 28 May 2/5 The dudes and dudesses of Vegas are rehearsing for the opera entitled ‘The Doctor of Alcantara’. 1885Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 15 June 2/3 The intense dudeness of Lord Beaconsfield in his early days is illustrated by a letter written in 1830. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee viii. 80 Reverence for rank and title..had disappeared—at least, to all intents and purposes. The remnant of it was restricted to the dudes and dudesses. 1889Bookworm 237 Any dudish Anglo⁓maniac or Fifth Avenue ‘bud’. 1889Voice (N.Y.) 2 May, The Pharisaical dudery which presumes to deny her [woman] a place in the world..equal with man. 1890Teacher (N.Y.) Sept. 101 Are we traveling the way of the Greeks?.. Is dudism becoming more contagious among us than philanthropy? 1891A. Welcker Woolly West 69 Joe then went east, and..married a young dudine out there. 1894Dickson Life Edison 230 A dudish applicant, with an overweening sense of his own self-importance. 1894Forum (U.S.) May 345 [It] would relegate its champion to the realms of dudedom.
Add:[2.] b. More generally, any man who catches the attention in some way; a fellow or chap, a guy. Hence also approvingly, esp. (through Black English) applied to a member of one's own circle or group. Cf. cat n.1 2 d. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1918L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 139 In a gang of snipes there is generally one dude who is known as the ‘king snipe’. 1934J. T. Farrell Young Manhood xxiii. 382 He turned to see a dude, with baboon lips, twisting and bending forwards as he laughed. 1950H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 156/1, I got a chill on (doubt the courage of) this dude we're working with. He might phony up on a drop. 1967Trans-Action Apr. 6/1 My set of Negro street types contained a revolving and sometimes disappearing (when the ‘heat’, or police pressure, was on) population of about 45 members ranging in age from 18 to 25. These were the local ‘dudes’, their term meaning not the fancy city slickers but simply ‘the boys’, ‘fellas’, the ‘cool people’. 1969H. R. Brown in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 354 There'd be sometimes 40 or 50 dudes standing around. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xv. 165 Like I'm one of those flying dudes, who leave their old ladies just to follow their nose. 1984M. Amis Money 112, I think my dog go bite one of them white dudes. 1985G. Naylor Linden Hills 29 So Willie gained the respect of Wayne Avenue because he was a ‘deep’ dude. 19902000 AD 31 Mar. 2/2, I hope you continue the adventures of this weird dude with the trendy haircut after the current story.
▸ colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.). A person (of either sex). Freq. as a familiar form of address.
1974C. Eble UNC-CH Campus Slang (typescript) Mar. 2 Dude, any person, usually a male? 1981D. Jenkins Baja Okla. 295 We're not talking about a lame chick and a gnarly guy. We're talking about a couple of far-out dudes. 1994A. Heckerling Clueless (Green Rev. pages) 4 Dionne. Dude! Cher. Girlfriend! They start to do a high five. 1999Milwaukee Jrnl.-Sentinel (Nexis) 30 Apr. Lighten up, dudes! That's the message the mayor of Milwaukee is sending to suburban legislators. 2006I. Edwards-Jones Fashion Babylon (2007) iii. 44 ‘Hey dudes,’ he says again, shooting Alexander and Lydia one after the other [with his index finger]. ‘How's it hanging?’
▪ II. dude, v. colloq. (orig. U.S.).|djuːd|
Also dood.
[f. the n.]
intr. With up: to dress oneself as or like a dude; also refl. Usu. in phr. duded up.
1899B. Tarkington Gentleman fr. Indiana xiii. 240 Why should Cale Parker be wearing a coat, and be otherwise dooded and fixed up beyond any wedding? 1924D. Marquis Old Soak's Hist. xxv. 124 If I gotto be all duded up..I'm a goanto dude myself up. 1958New Statesman 22 Feb. 243/1 The country cousins duding up to impress less snappy dressers back home. 1960Guardian 8 Nov. 1/6 The two men, shaved and rested and all duded up.
▪ III. dude
obs. pa. tense of do v. |