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Definition: Dude |
DudeNoun1. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dude A masher. One who renders himself conspicuous by affectation of dress, manners, and speech. The word was first familiarised in London in 1881, and is a revival of the old word dudes (clothes). We have several derivations, as dudder, one who sells dress-pieces; duddery, a rag-shop; duddle, to wrap up warmly (Halliwell), etc. It is not of American origin. "I should just as soon expect to see Mercutio smoke a cigarette, as to find him ambling about the stage with the mincing manners of a dude." - Jefferson: Century Magazine, January,1890, p. 383. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | French (mec). (references) |
Slang | Filler. Source: Nate the roadie. Definition: This word in the dictionary means man but the way it is used in this group the word seems to have no meaning. It seems as though it's there just to fill space. Context: This word can be used whenever the talker feels like slipping it into the conversation. Social Source: Drug culture band roadies. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Unknown. Definition: To be a friend of the surfer community. Also used in the same fashion as the Hawaiian word: "Aloha."(Hello, good-bye, etc.). Context: Used by members of the speech community for a wide variety of things. Mostly to identify themselves with other surfers or used in most conversation as a greeting. Social Source: Southern Californian surfers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Interjection. Source: This term could come from the "sufer" slang word "dude" where "dude" ment a person. Definition: An expression of excitement or suprise in assosiation with "wow.". Context: Used only when very excited, not used when a person is just happy. Not used in a formal setting. Social Source: Senior girls at Junction City High School. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word originated in New York City slang of ca 1883, referring to a fastidiously sharp dresser, what the late 18th century called a 'macaroni:'
Depending on the tone and body language used, dude can mean:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dude."
Synonyms: DudeSynonyms: beau (n), clotheshorse (n), dandy (n), fashion plate (n), fop (n), gallant (n), sheik (n), swell (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fop | Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dude |
| English words defined with "dude": Dudish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dude": DUDE WRANGLER, Dudeism ♦ MANAGER, DUDE RANCH. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | No, dude (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) You're the man. The dude in the chair (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Hey y'all see a little Asian dude about this height with a steering wheel on his arm (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) The Humvees ain't coming back for us, dude. (Black Hawk Down; writing credit: Ken Nolan) You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) | |
Lyrics | Well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) In the club wit her homies keep her eye on your dude (Get Away; performing artist: Jade) You're seeing some slick continental dude (Don't Talk To Strangers; performing artist: Rick Springfield) So this is what I tell my dude. (Just Kickin' It; performing artist: Xscape) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Missus Little's Dude Ranch (1972) Feud with a Dude (1968) Dude Duck (1951) The Dude Goes West (1948) Dude Cowboy (1941) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ronnie and Elvis greet geodetic party at Montana dude ranch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Dude Esterbrook. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Iron Dude. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The probable effect of having a dude President. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dude playing a slot machine. Birney, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dude girl. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lame Deer (vicinity), Montana. Dude looking out over Lyman Brewster's lease and across range country from the "top of the world". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dude at rodeo. Ashland, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Dude belle / Thos. Worth. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dude sweet music, superb costumes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Many British vacationers are horse lovers and are interested in experiencing the American West through western-style riding, dude ranches, chuck wagon barbecues, and the other ranch vacation attractions. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ann Richards | I don't know whether we do or not. Because the president hasn't told us. He's told us this is one bad dude and I'm ready to believe that. But I want to know what it is he knows that is going to take our kids and put them in harm's way in war. |
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| "Dude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.55% of the time. "Dude" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.55% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.04% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dude": a dude ranch ♦ dude oneself up ♦ dude ranch ♦ dude up. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dude ranch | 3,685 | pinegrove dude ranch | 31 |
dude | 601 | dude look like a lady | 30 |
dude wheres my car | 349 | dude wheres my car soundtrack | 30 |
devin dude | 138 | 420 dude | 29 |
texas dude ranch | 116 | california dude ranch | 29 |
dude hey | 110 | dude game | 29 |
dude ranch vacation | 108 | devin dude lyrics | 28 |
colorado dude ranch | 104 | surfer dude | 26 |
dude dorm | 72 | nude dude | 25 |
montana dude ranch | 61 | gay dude | 25 |
wyoming dude ranch | 59 | dude ranch in texas | 24 |
dude much | 53 | dude ranch ny | 24 |
car dude seriously wheres | 48 | dude hot | 21 |
new york dude ranch | 44 | block dude | 21 |
tech deck dude | 41 | rocking horse dude ranch | 20 |
dell dude | 39 | dude naked | 20 |
arizona dude ranch | 37 | florida dude ranch | 20 |
pine grove dude ranch | 35 | dude lucky | 19 |
loretta lynn dude ranch | 31 | day dude | 19 |
diaper dude | 31 | mayan dude ranch | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dendi (toff), tip (bloke, case, cast, character, cove, cuss, denomination, dog, exemplar, exponent, guy, joker, kind, lad, merchant, model, nature, persona, sort, type), spitullaq (coxcomb, guy), person (beggar, body, case, chap, contact, fella, fellow, fish, flesh and blood, guy, hand, individual, party, person, persona, personage, piece, subject). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتأنق (beau), المديني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тип (card, exemplar, exponent, fellow, joker, josser, party, person, phylum, specimen, stripe, style, type), курортист в ранчо, конте (adonis, beau, chappy, corinthian, exquisite, fop, gallant, jack-a-dandy, nut, popinjay, sharpy, swell, toff), позьор (affected person, fraud, poser, poseur, pretender, prig, sham). (various references) | |
Chinese | 花花公子 (Dandy). (various references) | |
Dutch | saletjonker (dandy, fop), kwast (attitudinizer, dandy, fop, knot, node, paintbrush, poseur), fat (dandy, fop), dandy (dandy, fop). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dando (dandy, fop). (various references) | |
Faeroese | mótaprinsur (dandy, fop), fínibeiggi (dandy, fop). (various references) | |
Farsi | ادم شیک پوش , شخص (Cove, Figure, Guy, Individual, Man, One, Person, Specimen, Subject). (various references) | |
French | type, mec. (various references) | |
German | Geck (attitudinizer, buck, dandy, fop, Peacock, popinjay, poseur). (various references) | |
Greek | κομψεμένοσ, άνθρωπος (human, human being, man, people, person), δανδήσ (spark). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ' "רן (beau, coxcomb, fop, jack-a-dandy, mollycoddle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jampec (dildo, fop, posh, spiv, swaggerer, teddy boy), haver (bucko, buddy, chum, cobber, crony, Dick, matey, pal, sidekick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pesolek (beau, dandy, fop, nut, nutty). (various references) | |
Italian | bellimbusto (Dandy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 見 坊 (coxcomb, fop, swell, vain person), 伊"者 (dandy), 伊"" (dandy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みえぼう (coxcomb, fop, swell, vain person), ておと" (dandy), てしゃ (dandy). (various references) | |
Korean | 멋쟁이. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | udeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | janota (chappy, cock-a-hoop, coxcomb, dandy, dapper, fop, swell, toff, trig), almofadinha (dandy, exquisite, fop, gallant). (various references) | |
Romanian | dandy (Dandy, fop), snob (flunkey, high-brow, pretentious, snob, squirt), filfizon (coxcomb, Dandy, dandyish, fop, jackanapes, Johnny, La-di-da, macaroni, Peacock), fante (coxcomb, jackanapes, Johnny, masher). (various references) | |
Russian | хлыщ (coxcomb, fop, popinjay, smart aleck), пижон (teddy boy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kicoš (beau, cockscomb, dandy, fop, jack-a-dandy, johnny, toff). (various references) | |
Spanish | dandy (Dandy, dudgeon), dandi (Dandy, dudgeon), petimetre (buck, exquisite, fop, popinjay, toff). (various references) | |
Swedish | klädsnobb. (various references) | |
Thai | เพื่อนชาย (boyfriend), ผู้ชายหรือเ"็กผู้ชาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), turist (rubberneck, sightseer, tourist, tripper, vacationist), şehirden gelen tatilci. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хлющ, франт (beau, exquisite, jackanapes, nut, toff). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | anh ch ng ăn diện (jack-a-dandy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dude": duded, dudeen, dudeens, dudes. (additional references) | |
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"Dude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dadoe, Dauda, Daudel, dcda, dde, ddel, Ddoe, ddu, dede, Dfda, diddi, dide, didi, doda, dodden, dode, dodel, dodi, Dodik, dodne, doid, drude, dube, duda, Dudai, duddu, duddy, dudely, dudem, duden, duder, dudet, dudez, Dudh, Dudie, dudik, Dudot, dudu, du-du, Duduc, dudy, dued, dufe, duge, duid, duld, dume, dunde, Duodo, duodu, duqe, Durdle, duree, duse, dute, duud, duve, duvey, duwe, duxe, gude, kude, Oude, tude, udd, udda, Uddm, ude, uded, wude, xude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dude" (pronounced duw"d) |
| 3 | d uw" d | endued, subdued. |
| 2 | -uw" d | accrued, allude, booed, brewed, brood, canoed, chewed, clued, collude, conclude, construed, crude, cued, debuted, delude, denude, intrude, lewd, elude, ensued, eschewed, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, glued, gude, hued, imbued, include, misconstrued, mood, nonfood, nude, obtrude, poohed, preclude, protrude, prude, pursued, renewed, reviewed, rood, rude, screwed, seclude, shampooed, shooed, shrewd, skewed, spewed, stewed, sued, tattooed, unglued, viewed, wooed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-u" | |
-1 letter: dud, due. | |
-2 letters: de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-u" | |
+1 letter: duded, dudes, duked, duped, dured, udder. | |
+2 letters: adduce, budded, budder, buddle, budged, cuddie, cuddle, curded, daubed, dauted, deduce, deduct, defund, delude, denude, deuced, doused, drudge, dubbed, ducked, ducted, duddie, dudeen, dueled, duende, dulled, dumbed, dumped, dunged, dunked, dunned, dunted, dupped, durned, dusked, dusted, educed, eluded, endued, exuded, feuded, fuddle, fudged, funded, guided, huddle, indued, judder, judged, lauded, mudded, mudder, muddle, nudged, puddle, redbud, rudder, ruddle, sudden, sudsed, sueded, udders, undead, undyed. | |
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