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dude: [noun] a man extremely fastidious in dress and manner : dandy.
dude: 1 n an informal form of address for a man Synonyms: buster , fellow Type of: adult male , man an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) n a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance Synonyms: beau , clotheshorse , dandy , fashion plate , fop , gallant , sheik , swell Examples: George Bryan Brummell English dandy ...
Dude. Dude is American slang for an individual, typically male. [1] From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker". In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that ...
Dude definition: a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners. See examples of DUDE used in a sentence.
Over the decades, dudes have been fops, ‘dandified dilettantes,’ cool guys and surfers. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the ...
a man too much concerned with his clothes and appearance; dandy; fop. 2. West, Slang. a city fellow or tourist, esp. an Easterner who is vacationing on a ranch. 3. Slang. any man or boy. verb transitive Word forms: ˈduded or ˈduding Slang. 4.
dude. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English dude /djuːd $ duːd/ noun [ countable] American English 1 informal a man a real cool dude 2 old-fashioned an American man from a city, who is living in or visiting a farm or ranch Examples from the Corpus dude • Dude, check out that car. • But dude if I was to do speed man, it complete ...