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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West.
  2. n. Informal A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor.
  3. n. Slang A man; a fellow.
  4. n. Slang Persons of either sex.
  5. v. Slang To dress elaborately or flamboyantly: got all duded up for the show.
  6. interj. Slang Used to express approval, satisfaction, or congratulations.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fop or exquisite, characterized by affected refinements of dress, speech, manners, and gait, and a serious mien; hence, by an easy extension, and with less of contempt, a man given to excessive refinement of fashion in dress.

Wiktionary

  1. n. slang A man.
  2. n. slang, used in the vocative A term of address for a man.
  3. n. originally An inexperienced cowboy.
  4. n. slang A tourist.
  5. n. archaic A dandy, a man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Recent A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
  2. n. an informal form of address for a man

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (17)

Words with the same meaning

  1. guy
  2. mainly
  3. slang
  1. Zealand
  2. bloke
  3. chap
  1. dated
  2. New
  3. qualifier
  1. in
  2. Southland
  3. cove
  1. Australia
  2. mate
  3. masher
  1. fop
  2. dandy

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. adult male
  1. man

same context (10)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. fella
  2. chick
  1. bastard
  2. mom
  1. guy
  2. shit
  1. bloke
  2. Buddy
  1. boyfriend
  2. pal

rhymes (70)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Abood
  2. Jude
  3. Likud
  4. Mahmood
  5. Mahmoud
  6. Rhude
  7. abood
  8. accrued
  9. allude
  10. ballyhooed
  11. blued
  12. booed
  13. brewed
  14. brood
  1. canoed
  2. chewed
  3. clued
  4. collude
  5. conclude
  6. construed
  7. crude
  8. cued
  9. debuted
  10. delude
  11. denude
  12. elude
  13. endued
  14. ensued
  1. eschewed
  2. exclude
  3. extrude
  4. exude
  5. feud
  6. food
  7. glued
  8. gude
  9. hued
  10. imbued
  11. include
  12. intrude
  13. lewd
  14. masoud
  1. misconstrued
  2. mood
  3. nonfood
  4. nude
  5. obtrude
  6. preclude
  7. protrude
  8. prude
  9. pursued
  10. renewed
  11. reviewed
  12. rood
  13. rude
  14. screwed
  1. seclude
  2. shampooed
  3. shooed
  4. shrewd
  5. skewed
  6. spewed
  7. stewed
  8. stude
  9. subdued
  10. sued
  11. tattooed
  12. unglued
  13. viewed
  14. wooed

reverse dictionary (2)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. dudish
  1. masher

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Free-form, user-generated categorization

  1. a boyfriend
  2. a brother
  1. a dude a guy
  2. an uncle
  1. a son
  2. a master of nothing who thinks he is something of a good man
  1. a person
  2. a joker with a soul made of material matter
  1. a breath of consciousness
  2. a ghost
  1. a character whose somebody most
  2. cvcv

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  • Prolagus "An inexperienced cowboy". Well spotted, ruzuzu! Thanks! Dec 5, 2010

  • nzanh I hate this word! This is a word that is way overworked and far too informal to address strangers and figures of authority. But people do it everyday. Some people are so entranced by this word that they manage to use this word 5 times in a sentence. I'm 50 years old and don't appreciate a 20 something calling me this word. Dec 19, 2009

  • Ulrich What about including the urban dictionary? Jul 7, 2009

  • madmouth feminine: dudine (see OE) Jul 7, 2009

  • dontcry It cracks me up when my son calls me dude! Jul 31, 2008

  • gangerh Always liked this word. And all ways. Now I know why. Wilde being one of my Wordie heroes. Suddenly the word is cooler. Even mint. Dude is the new uberpersonword. May 7, 2008

  • whichbe The word "dude", which was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends, is a portmanteau of the words 'duds' (for clothes) and 'attitude'. Unlike today, the word was considered derogatory until the 1960s.
    May 7, 2008

  • yarb Maidenhead itself is too snobby to be pleasant. It is the haunt of the river swell and his overdressed female companion. It is the town of showy hotels, patronised chiefly by dudes and ballet girls.

    - Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, 1889. Apr 3, 2008

  • poisonedblueeyes dude. Feb 21, 2008

  • kalli We, as in the royal we, like The Dude. El Duderino if you're not into that whole brevity thing. Oct 22, 2007

  • slumry The vogue word of 1883. Jul 17, 2007

  • seanahan The hilarious scene from "Dude, Where's My Car", consisting entirely of the words "Dude" and "Sweet". Jan 12, 2007

  • tankexmortis Who was it that said that in 50 years the only words left would be like and dude? Jan 12, 2007

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