duden.adj.int.
/d(j)uːd/, U.S. /dud/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
A. n.
1. A man who shows an ostentatious regard for fashion and style in regard to dress or appearance; a dandy, a fop. Now rare.The precise meaning in quots. 1877 and 1879 is unclear; both are from military contexts, and may suggest an earlier slightly different sense.In later use not always easily distinguished from sense A. 3b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy
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1877 F. Remington Sel. Lett. (1988) 15 Don't send me any more [pictures of] women or any more dudes. Send me Indians, cowboys, villains or toughs.
1879 A. F. Mulford Fighting Indians (ed. 2) vi. 26 What a difference between the real soldiers we now met, and those paper collar dudes at Fort Snelling!
1883 World (N.Y.) 14 Jan. 9/5 Now lately in this hemisphere, Through some amalgamation, A flock of Dudes, I greatly fear, Are added to our nation.
1883 N.Y. Mirror 24 Feb. 2/1 A new and valuable addition has been made to the slang vocabulary... We refer to the term ‘dood’.
1883 Greenville (Pa.) Advance Argus 15 Mar. ‘Dude’ is the latest slang, and is applied to the most effeminate and ubiquitous type of the ‘lardy-dah’ or ‘masher’. He smokes cigarettes, wears natty silk hats, pipe-stem trousers and a bang.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 July 4/1 His friends were alternately the ‘plug uglies’ of Sixth Avenue and the dudes of Delmonico's.
1916 Proc. 39th Ann. Meeting Pennsylvania State Board Agric. 124 Highly perfumed town dudes wearing creased pants, looking through their bi-noculars.
1946 R. P. Warren All King's Men viii. 339 I have found Hubert to be quite a dude—two white suits a day, and white silk shorts with red monograms, they say.
2. Chiefly U.S. regional. A man from the eastern United States; a male city dweller, esp. one unused to ranching or to rural life in general. In later use chiefly: a guest at a dude ranch. Now rare.
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1884 Santa Fé New Mexican Rev. 19 Mar. 1/3 Among them was the handsome young lady, who was accompanied by a dude of eastern pattern and make.
1894 F. Remington Sel. Lett. (1988) v. 260 It's a whole book on Arizona. It's pretty fine for a dude who has never been in A[rizona] to follow you.
1937 San Antonio (Texas) Light 18 June 3 b/2 We remember when there were more dudes in Wyoming than there were ranches. Now there are said to be more ranches than there are dudes.
1955 R. Wilson Girls from Planet 5 i. 5 When you go reportin' for some Texas paper, suh, you gotta ack like a Texan, not like some damn dude.
1974 G. W. Wingate How Chicken Hawk won West 42 All right, folks. It's time to show this young dude from the East what the town of Litter Barrel stands fer.
3.
a. More generally: a person, esp. a man.In later use frequently as a form of address.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun]
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1895 E. W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden, Major Max & Other Stories 21 I was kinder layin' fer dat dude, anyhow 'cause 'e is allus roastin' me.
1916 A. Pollitzer Let. Dec. in Lovingly, Georgia (1990) 229 Isn't it funny we were reading Wright at the same time. Yes I certainly do agree—I wish I hadn't seen the dude.
1930 G. Williams Logger-talk 23 Dude, Used as a general term for a man as fellow is used.
1960 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Advance 18 Mar. 4/5 Hey, all you dudes, now is your chance to swing those gals 'til the dimples show in their knees.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xv. 165 Like I'm one of those flying dudes, who leave their old ladies just to follow their nose.
1986 C. Matheson & E. Solomon Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (film script, 5th draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 49 Ted. (looking at his watch) Dude, we are in most excellent shape for our history report.
1987 S. Tyler & J. Perry Dude (Looks Like a Lady) in Aerosmith Permanent Vac. (record sleeve note) Dude looks like a lady.
2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xxxviii. 327 ‘Dude, I can barely hear you,’ Janie complained when she answered.
2014 Observer 22 June (Tech Monthly Suppl.) 11 We have a seminar..and we invite world-leading, interesting, fascinating dudes: GPs, specialists, campaigners etc.
b. With approving connotation: a person (usually a man) regarded as being ‘cool’ or fashionable, or as embodying some other admirable or desirable quality.
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1967 Trans-action Apr. 6/1 My set of Negro street types contained a revolving..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’.
1988 R. L. Doneker CORMIX1 (Ph.D diss., Cornell Univ.) p. vi Appreciation should also be extended to my office-mate and total dude Marc Parlange for the countless hours of discussion and the occasional blind-sided choke hold.
1997 J. Keates Soon to be Major Motion Picture 163 On Prize Day,..a total dude in my new Hugo Boss, I shook the Lord Mayor's hand and looked him straight in the eye.
2000 Financial Times 15 Apr. (Weekend FT section) p. iii/5 The biggest ‘lad’ in the class..provided the ultimate accolade: ‘Shakespeare's quite cool, really. I think he's a dude, sir.’
2009 J. Scieszka in L. S. Marcus Funny Business 201 Our teacher was a war vet and a real dude, the classic hard-talking sergeant with the funny haircut.
B. adj.
That is a dude (in various senses); (occasionally) characteristic of or resembling a dude.
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the world > people > person > man > [adjective]
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish
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the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > qualities of
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1879 A. F. Mulford Fighting Indians (ed. 2) iv. 16 Company C, 20th Infantry, was at that time composed of dude soldiers, pets of dress parade officers.
1887 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 22 Oct. 2/3 The dude hamfatters after trying various games to skip unseen, conceived the idea of making up as a couple of well-dressed women.
1908 8th Ann. Iowa Year Bk. Agric. 1907 iii. 100 He said..some dude fellow was coming down there to talk to us old fellows about cattle feeding.
1958 Boys' Life Oct. 66/2 In The Big Country..a peace-loving, sea-faring dude easterner..goes west to get married.
2003 M. Kingwell Catch & Release ii. 19 At dinner the first night in Kelowna, or ‘K-town’ as my dude younger brother likes to call it, I announced that I would not fish.
2005 G. Behrendt & A. Ruotola-Behrendt It's called Breakup because it's Broken 255 It was like a shield with a heart and then two guitars crossed skull-and-bones style, and at the top a crown. Very dude.
C. int.
Expressing awe, delight, surprise, etc.; used for emphasis. Cf. man n.1 16c.
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1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 36 Dude!, Hey! Wow! Gee! Shit!
1997 J. Seabrook Deeper vi. 193 I thought to myself, Right on! Dude! Welcome to the treehouse!
2002 A. Eaton Nathan Nuttboard hits Beach 98 ‘Mate, you'd get turned into jelly with the first wave.’ ‘Yeah. But dude, what a way to go, eh?’
2014 T. Edward Lessons in Humiliation xi. 77 And I'm like—woah, dude—like you've never like seen ‘Friends’, man?
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
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1887 Clothier & Furnisher (N.Y.) Sept. 46/2 A certain New York hat salesman..put on his dude clothes one evening in the Grand Pacific, Chicago, recently.
1933 Helena (Montana) Independent 25 Nov. 6/4 It has been impossible for a dude rancher to borrow farm loan bank money on saddle horses, resort buildings or dude equipment.
1955 R. Wilson Girls from Planet 5 xxii. 176 I almost didn't recognize you in that dude outfit, Sam.
2011 Atlantic Monthly May 37/2 As Rosner puts it, dude cookery is all ‘fire, blood and knives’.
C2.
dude ranch n. a ranch operated as a holiday resort or tourist attraction; = guest-ranch n. at guest n. Compounds 1.
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1899 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 12 June 3/5 The Mandan Pioneer tells of the Easton Brothers' ‘dude’ ranch at Medora.
1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xiii. 116 There was paint galore at the dude ranch, but there was also a tradition of toughness.
2001 Chicago Tribune 11 Nov. viii. 4/1 There's a dude ranch trip in May that sounds terrific.
dude rancher n. the proprietor of a dude ranch.
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1895 Daily Californian (Bakersfield) 3 Oct. 4/3 C. Sorenson, dude rancher; C. D. Turner, clown; Frank Haines, jockey; F. L. Baker, messenger.
1940 E. Fergusson Our Southwest vi. 108 Every dude rancher saw his profits disappear underground in pumps, pipes, and septic tanks.
2014 J. Dailey Texas True 206 Who could her father be? Rich, no doubt. Most likely some dude rancher from one of the big, syndicated outfits.
Derivatives
ˈdudedom n. the state of being a dude (in various senses); the world of dudes.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of
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1883 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. 3/4 Newport is, even apart from its solidly rich folk, the centre and home of dudedom.
1904 D. De Leon tr. A. Bebel Woman under Socialism 117 Their principal task is to raise their daughters as show-dolls, and their sons as pupils for the jeunesse dore..out of which dudedom recruits its ranks.
2009 Lawrence (Kansas) Jrnl.-World 26 Aug. 8 b/5 His trademark dudedom is much older. He was the host of ‘MTV Sports’ from 1992 to 1997, popularizing a kind of extreme-sports stereotype that endures to this day.
ˈdudeism n. now rare dudish behaviour, attitudes, or character; the quality of being a dude.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of
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1883 Shelbyville (Indiana) Daily Evening Democrat 1 June The silk trouser..is the latest development in dudism.
1914 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 12 July 41/2 Dudism is worse than conceit, because it is self-apparent.
2010 Times (Nexis) 1 May (Mag.) 7 Ken [Clarke]..looks like he'd bring a cool streak of dudeism to international diplomacy.
ˈdudeness n. now rare dudish character; the quality or fact of being a dude.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of
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1884 Puck (N.Y.) 2 Apr. 74/2 His working for his living..interferes with his Dudeness. The true Dude must be idle.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 27 June 108/2 Wood's glacial anime eyes..don't prepare you for his goofy dudeness.
ˈdudery n. now rare = dudeism n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of
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1883 Boston Daily Globe 16 Aug. (Suppl.) 1/1 The majority of the party is not in love with Independent dudery.
1941 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 26 Jan. 11/2 Spats were a curious aberration. They didn't really look well..but for many years they were symbols of dudery.
2004 Guardian (Nexis) 8 May 4 While coolness is widely perceived to be the domain of alpha males, motion-picture history supplies us with numerous examples of distaff dudery.
duˈdine n. [ < dude n. + -ine suffix3] now rare = dudette n.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
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1883 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 13 Apr. The ‘dudine’ is the feminine equivalent of the ‘dude’.
1920 Z. I. Trinka Out where West Begins xxxiv. 333 A lady was called a ‘Dudine’.
2013 K. A. Barrick Harrison R. Crandall xiv. 150 (caption) A group of dudes and dudines traverses the flats in front of the Cathedral Group.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
dudev.
/djuːd/, U.S. /dud/ colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
1. intransitive. Chiefly with up. To dress up or adorn oneself so as to appear fashionable, smart, or eye-catching. Also transitive (reflexive) in same sense. Cf. earlier duded-up adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (intransitive)] > in specific way > other
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1894 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 28 Oct. 10/6 When he wants to dude up with a cute little cigarette it spoils his handsome cast of countenance.
1924 D. Marquis Old Soak's Hist. World xxv. 124 If I gotto be all duded up..I'm a goanto dude myself up.
1958 New Statesman 22 Feb. 243/1 The country cousins duding up to impress less snappy dressers back home.
1971 Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Courier 14 Mar. 32/1 The current job is like a wife, they just don't figure it's worth duding up for.
2010 N. Kent Apathy for Devil 155 He'd duded himself up in a pink leather suit and Rod Stewart feather cut.
2. transitive. To dress (someone) up so as to appear fashionable, smart, or eye-catching; to smarten or spruce up.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > improve in appearance
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (transitive)]
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately
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1899 B. Tarkington Gentleman from Indiana xiii. 240 Why should Cale Parker be wearing a coat, and be otherwise dooded and fixed up beyond any wedding?
1917 A. C. H. Rice Calvary Alley xvii. 204 Sit down and let me dude you up a bit. You always did wear your hair too plain.
1970 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 20 Nov. 6 A boozy old ex-ranger whose buddies try to dry him out and dude him up for a new job.
2008 C. Atkins Prodigy xvii. 215 They'd duded him up in a tan leisure suit.
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