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单词 dude
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Definition of dude in English:

dude

noun d(j)uːddud
North American informal
  • 1A man; a guy (often as a form of address)

    hey dude, what's up?
    if some dude smacked me, I'd smack him back
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I know you're on TV and everything, but I've been on TV too, dude.
    • So anyways, hey dudes, we should go downtown tomorrow, eh?
    • Hey dude, thought you said you wanted to talk about the future?
    • I'm glad you like it, dude.
    • Husseman, a former wolf researcher, pointed and said, ‘Check out the alpenglow, dude.’
    • Hey dude, hold on, Pontius has something to say about April Fool's.
    • Don't turn a blind eye to this mega-chain, dude.
    • If banality is engulfing humankind, they've rallied with the cry: ‘Surf's up, dude!’
    • So to the dude who I smacked, if you're reading this, I'm sorry, truly sorry.
    • You know, we've been doing something right, dude.
    • Rail transportation's the wave of the future, dude.
    • Hey dude, all you have to do when you watch a TV show is tape the show at the same time that you are watching it.
    • Hey dude, why'd you take your mouth off the exhaust pipe?
    • See, there's this dude, dude, and he thinks people are too uptight, right?
    • And I saw what you did with your men in labs, too - very clever, dude.
    • They'd probably just send me emails of congratulatory thanks, signing off with, ‘thanks, dude.’
    • Hey dude, I heard that they posted notice of my freedom on your website today, and I am sorry but you got false information.
    • Well, I think that's like a secret message, dude.
    • ‘That looks sick, dude,’ Luke chirps, snapping his goggles into place.
    • I talked to him and said, dude, I don't know who your source is, but I hope you're not using them for anyone else because it's simply completely false.
    1. 1.1 A stylish and confident person.
      cool dudes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you're into your music and fashion this is the bar to be in, full of cool dudes, with no riff-raff in checked shirts, black pants and nice shiny shoes.
      • Dan escapes into the noir world of a novel he wrote called The Singing Detective in which foul deeds are done, women are the betrayers and Dan himself is a cool dude.
      • He was a rarity: a teacher cool enough for the dudes in class, but with solid standards that made sure we did our work.
      • He had been born and raised in New Rochelle, NY, and even in high school was a cool dude, being voted the best dressed senior.
      • I couldn't wait to get to the set to play this guy, because I thought he was such a cool dude, and so deliciously devilish, and so funny.
      • Everybody knows the coolest dudes in the world have no money.
      • Like starstruck girls, they always go for the coolest dudes.
      • Today, I began a new ‘project’ working with a couple of cool dudes based in Swindon.
      • They fantasised about being these cool dudes in a Godard film, but they didn't really get there.
      • Then, I turned to the cool dudes on the right to see how they were reacting, and nearly fell off my berth - it was them.
      • We run into each other quite often - he's a cool dude.
      • Additionally, any man that can maintain a relationship with Lois Lane has got be a cool dude.
      • Atta handled them really well - in fact, he was one cool dude throughout.
      • Julio's such a cool dude I'd hate to see my buddy get hurt.
      • Here it was the kids who liked punk and new wave who were the cool dudes.
      • There are the cool dudes flashing along the byways as if they were racing in the Tour de France.
      • ‘He had a wonderful, confident attitude and stood out as a real dude on the course,’ Yates says.
      • The Clutch dudes are totally cool and we're having a blast.
      • Right off the bat I just met up with the coolest dudes.
      Synonyms
      dandy, fop, beau, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, rake
    2. 1.2US A city-dweller, especially one holidaying on a ranch in the western US.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I had written you of a trip up the mountains I had taken with Bill Hawk and the dudes staying on their Ranch.
      • The workers were a mixture of the real thing and city dudes playing at the rural life.
      • Many ranches supplemented their incomes by entertaining dudes on vacation.
      • After he'd kicked so hard against dudes staying at Rainbow, the figures on the monitor showed it was a real gold mine.
      • I guess we looked like dudes from the city as everyone turned to look us over as we walked in.
verb d(j)uːddud
[no object]dude upNorth American informal
  • Dress up elaborately.

    my brother was all duded up in silver and burgundy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's 55 years old, the hair largely gray now, all duded up like a college professor, and he's backed by a huge American flag in this union hall in Ashland, Ohio.
    • In one photograph he stands in his lambing camp, duded up in a white shirt, black vest, and tie.
    • The kid with the blissful smile had grown into this tall, handsome, blonde ladykiller and he'd duded himself up in the coolest of new rags, including one of those trendy sport coats with sleeves you could roll up.
    • Another is of my dad in Stuttgart, Germany, duded up in leather wearing a Leica camera around his neck.
    • Either way, it's an excuse to get all duded up, and hang out with a bunch of folks I know.

Derivatives

  • dudish

  • adjective ˈd(j)uːdɪʃˈdudɪʃ
    North American informal
    • His need to hunt and gather has led him to amass more typically dudish things like Star Wars figures, useless and broken garage-sale finds, and, most recently, sounds of all kinds.

Origin

Late 19th century (denoting a dandy): probably shortened from doodle, perhaps with allusion to Yankee Doodle Dandy.

  • This slang term is probably from German dialect Dude ‘fool’. It appeared in New York at the beginning of 1883 for a man who was the equivalent of the English dandy, fastidious in his dress. At the same time the word was applied to a non-westerner or city-dweller spending his holidays on a ranch in the western USA, a ‘dude ranch’. In the 20th century it came to mean simply ‘a man, a guy’. See also cat

Rhymes

allude, brood, collude, conclude, crude, delude, elude, étude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, illude, include, intrude, Jude, lewd, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, Oudh, preclude, protrude, prude, pseud, pultrude, rood, rude, seclude, shrewd, snood, transude, unglued, unsubdued, who'd, you'd
 
 

Definition of dude in US English:

dude

noundo͞oddud
North American informal
  • 1A man; a guy.

    if some dude smacked me, I'd smack him back
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Don't turn a blind eye to this mega-chain, dude.
    • So to the dude who I smacked, if you're reading this, I'm sorry, truly sorry.
    • And I saw what you did with your men in labs, too - very clever, dude.
    • Hey dude, I heard that they posted notice of my freedom on your website today, and I am sorry but you got false information.
    • Husseman, a former wolf researcher, pointed and said, ‘Check out the alpenglow, dude.’
    • Hey dude, thought you said you wanted to talk about the future?
    • I know you're on TV and everything, but I've been on TV too, dude.
    • If banality is engulfing humankind, they've rallied with the cry: ‘Surf's up, dude!’
    • Well, I think that's like a secret message, dude.
    • You know, we've been doing something right, dude.
    • Hey dude, why'd you take your mouth off the exhaust pipe?
    • See, there's this dude, dude, and he thinks people are too uptight, right?
    • Rail transportation's the wave of the future, dude.
    • ‘That looks sick, dude,’ Luke chirps, snapping his goggles into place.
    • I talked to him and said, dude, I don't know who your source is, but I hope you're not using them for anyone else because it's simply completely false.
    • Hey dude, all you have to do when you watch a TV show is tape the show at the same time that you are watching it.
    • Hey dude, hold on, Pontius has something to say about April Fool's.
    • They'd probably just send me emails of congratulatory thanks, signing off with, ‘thanks, dude.’
    • So anyways, hey dudes, we should go downtown tomorrow, eh?
    • I'm glad you like it, dude.
    1. 1.1 A stylish, fastidious man.
      cool dudes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Atta handled them really well - in fact, he was one cool dude throughout.
      • Today, I began a new ‘project’ working with a couple of cool dudes based in Swindon.
      • There are the cool dudes flashing along the byways as if they were racing in the Tour de France.
      • He had been born and raised in New Rochelle, NY, and even in high school was a cool dude, being voted the best dressed senior.
      • They fantasised about being these cool dudes in a Godard film, but they didn't really get there.
      • He was a rarity: a teacher cool enough for the dudes in class, but with solid standards that made sure we did our work.
      • Additionally, any man that can maintain a relationship with Lois Lane has got be a cool dude.
      • Like starstruck girls, they always go for the coolest dudes.
      • Julio's such a cool dude I'd hate to see my buddy get hurt.
      • Here it was the kids who liked punk and new wave who were the cool dudes.
      • I couldn't wait to get to the set to play this guy, because I thought he was such a cool dude, and so deliciously devilish, and so funny.
      • We run into each other quite often - he's a cool dude.
      • Right off the bat I just met up with the coolest dudes.
      • The Clutch dudes are totally cool and we're having a blast.
      • Dan escapes into the noir world of a novel he wrote called The Singing Detective in which foul deeds are done, women are the betrayers and Dan himself is a cool dude.
      • Everybody knows the coolest dudes in the world have no money.
      • ‘He had a wonderful, confident attitude and stood out as a real dude on the course,’ Yates says.
      • Then, I turned to the cool dudes on the right to see how they were reacting, and nearly fell off my berth - it was them.
      • If you're into your music and fashion this is the bar to be in, full of cool dudes, with no riff-raff in checked shirts, black pants and nice shiny shoes.
      Synonyms
      dandy, fop, beau, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, rake
    2. 1.2US A city-dweller, especially one vacationing on a ranch in the western US.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The workers were a mixture of the real thing and city dudes playing at the rural life.
      • After he'd kicked so hard against dudes staying at Rainbow, the figures on the monitor showed it was a real gold mine.
      • I guess we looked like dudes from the city as everyone turned to look us over as we walked in.
      • I had written you of a trip up the mountains I had taken with Bill Hawk and the dudes staying on their Ranch.
      • Many ranches supplemented their incomes by entertaining dudes on vacation.
verbdo͞oddud
[no object]dude upNorth American informal
  • Dress up elaborately.

    my brother was all duded up in silver and burgundy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's 55 years old, the hair largely gray now, all duded up like a college professor, and he's backed by a huge American flag in this union hall in Ashland, Ohio.
    • In one photograph he stands in his lambing camp, duded up in a white shirt, black vest, and tie.
    • The kid with the blissful smile had grown into this tall, handsome, blonde ladykiller and he'd duded himself up in the coolest of new rags, including one of those trendy sport coats with sleeves you could roll up.
    • Another is of my dad in Stuttgart, Germany, duded up in leather wearing a Leica camera around his neck.
    • Either way, it's an excuse to get all duded up, and hang out with a bunch of folks I know.

Origin

Late 19th century (denoting a dandy): probably shortened from doodle, perhaps with allusion to Yankee Doodle Dandy.

 
 
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