Silly me!I’m interested in dude gender (hard to get this information when you’re living abroad).
The OED citations indicate that it originated as American slang to describe young men who affected the dress, manners, and speech of an English gentleman.You can take this or leave it: In the late 1970’s, I worked in television with a gnarly dude who drove to Los Angeles to surf every weekend.
And please, never dudette. I wonder what the age cut-off point is.Oh, never mind, “effigy of Guy Fawkes” is what Cowan said. Somehow by the time of Lebowski the word had gained some new strength.Düsseldorf ist eine der wenigen Städte in Deutschland, deren Lichtsignalanlagen für Fußgänger über eine separate Gelbphase verfügen. The first documented use of the word is from 1883. @komfo,amonan, re: women as “dudes”: I agree.
She was to be addressed as a dudessa.Some dictionary entries for ‘doodle’ state that it may derive from dedeltopf, German for simpleton. Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here.
Kant and the Dravidians must be John Emerson’s bailiwick.My name is Steve Dodson; I'm a retired copyeditor currently living in western Massachusetts after many years in New York City.Kant is to blame for everything, him and his Dravidian hordes.Is Kant to blame for this sort of thing?While Radbourn was working that afternoon, the real world intruded via the park’s scoreboard, with news posted by hand in big letters: New York governor Grover Cleveland had been nominated for president at the Democratic convention that afternoon in Chicago.
;-))) Dani. The first documented use of the word is from 1883.
The fight is between Boston and Providence.”Thanks, Paul, that’s quite interesting (though at first glance I thought you were talking about the Major League games of the 2340 season, which would have been even more interesting).“Dude” has been thoroughly unisexed at this point, at least so thinks this Californian. ‘Cove’ with the same meaning also disappeared in England, although I subsequently heard that word commonly used in Australia.Oh, yes, the existing notion of winning and losing pitcher is close to absurd. The OED citations indicate that it originated as American slang to describe young men who affected the dress, manners, and speech of an English gentleman.You can take this or leave it: In the late 1970’s, I worked in television with a gnarly dude who drove to Los Angeles to surf every weekend. The dude said, “Hey, I like that. In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s. TIL A female 'dude' is a dudine, not a dudette.
She was to be addressed as a dudessa.Some dictionary entries for ‘doodle’ state that it may derive from dedeltopf, German for simpleton.
EXPLORE . As nouns the difference between dudette and dude is that dudette is (slang|often humorous) the female equivalent of dude (in the slang senses) while dude is (slang) a man. WORD ORIGINS ; LANGUAGE QUESTIONS ; WORD LISTS; SPANISH DICTIONARY; More.
I’m going to use it.”Copyright © 2020 Daily Writing Tips . 1 0 0. Wikipedia states that British troops intended Yankee Doodle as an insult to the colonists. Unmittelbar nachdem das Fußgängersignal von Gelb auf Rot wechselt, wird die Freigabe für den Querverkehr eingeleitet.And I’ll have no low-minded equivocations involving cocks and bushes, thank you.
When I was a child growing up in England I only ever heard it on television or in the cinema. 7 years ago. Any anecdotal evidence?
I wish I could go back and retupe that. Dude is American English slang for an individual, typically male. Feminine forms existed for the earlier dude as well: dudine and dudess. woman as dude is pretty neutral these days.
dudine definition: Noun (plural dudines) 1. It typically applies to men, although the word can encompass either sex. Love words? Also (occasionally): the female companion of a dude.A concerned about her dress and appearance; a female dude.A girl or woman who is noted for being tough or capable. And like all things Bowie this plainly implied something to aspire to, even if the reasons why were somewhat elusive.To round out the discussion, one might mention that “dude clothes” was shortened to “duds.”There are some other interesting etymological notes on Michael Quinion’s site that may be of interest:I hope that wasn’t bloghoggish or overly tangential.I once referred to a woman as a dudette, and she told me that that term was diminutive. Just for the fun of it, I hereby claim to have coined dudette.There was a comic back in the 70s, might have been Tommy Chong, who used the phrase “dudes and dudettes.”Once the West was tamed, the “dude ranch” came into being: a working ranch that catered to guests who wanted to play at being cowboys and could pay well for the privilege.My first exposure to the term was in the David Bowie penned hit for Mott the Hoople.
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Current slang retains at least some use of all three of these common meanings.A cowgirl, especially a tenderfoot.A cowboy's wife, or a woman who moves out west with the intention of marrying a cowboy.A female dude. That makes the later meaning, somebody who simple-mindedly imitated European fashions, intuitive to me.Ugh.
Wikipedia states that British troops intended Yankee Doodle as an insult to the colonists.