Antonyms for dude
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dood, dyood |
| Phonetic Transcription : dud, dyud |
Definition of dude
Origin :- 1883, "fastidious man," New York City slang of unknown origin. The vogue word of 1883, originally used in reference to the devotees of the "aesthetic" craze, later applied to city slickers, especially Easterners vacationing in the West (e.g. dude ranch, first recorded 1921).
- Now, "tenderfoot" is not to be construed as the Western equivalent of that much evolved and more abused specimen of mankind, familiarly styled "dude." For even the Montana cowboy recognizes the latter. Not that he has ever seen the true prototype of a class that was erstwhile so numerous among us. But he is convinced that a person caught in the act of wearing a white linen collar, and who looks as though he might have recently shaved or washed his face, must be a dude, true and proper. ["Random Notes and Observations of a Trip through the Great Northwest," "The Medical Record," Oct. 20, 1883]
- Application to any male is recorded by 1966, U.S., originally in Black English.
- noun friend
- noun dapper man
- Probably he was the kind of man that the name sounded like; a dude with pink cheeks.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- I allow you to—er—ornament my weir-pole, and 'tain't every dude I'd let do that.'
- Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Having a dude puncher on our range kind of stirred up my emulosity.
- Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
- "What, our own dude going to camp in the wilderness," cried Tom.
- Extract from : « The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle » by Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)
- Thus a man who is noted for his dress is a "swell," a "dude," or a "sport."
- Extract from : « As A Chinaman Saw Us » by Anonymous
- The dude has Verinder burnt on about eight trunks, s'elp me.
- Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
- You've got an acthent like the fellow who plays the dude in thith show.
- Extract from : « Jill the Reckless » by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
- "I thought maybe it was that dude again," he remarked cheerfully.
- Extract from : « The Rich Little Poor Boy » by Eleanor Gates
- I heard her kind of taking on before the dude hushed her up.
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
- The sloven and the dude are both slaves; but in different ways.
- Extract from : « Practical Ethics » by William DeWitt Hyde
Synonyms for dude
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