Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).

Etymologies

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dude +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • (At least, from what I understand about you of the dudely persuasion.)

    Stuff My Wife Says That Disturbs Me Tyler 2009

  • Comments are welcome on whether that makes dudely privileged behaviour more or less obnoxious than salesperson behaviour.

    my salesmanship suck: let me show you it. also, rape culture. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2010

  • Dudes may have seemed a little less dudely, as Gov.

    NFL Week 17 Live: Coaching buzz, playoff permutations on last week Cindy Boren 2011

  • Secondly, a reader informs me that Team Astana has just received another celebrity visitor in the tanned, dudely and bro-ey form of Matthew McConaughey, which means that Lance Armstrong will almost certainly be hanging a Maillot Célébrité next to the seven Maillot Jaunes already on display in his wood-paneled rumpus room back in Austin.

    Sexy and Bold: Life on the Street BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • But Selkow's deep and dudely affection for Sam -- which is clearly reciprocated when Sam is stable -- carries the documentary through patches where it seems like mania or depression might permanently derail the project ... if not Sam himself.

    Tim Dickinson: TiVo This: A Summer in the Cage 2008

  • Does it simplify your life to have to remember that a fork is dudely whereas a spoon is girly?

    Grammatical Investigations: she, he, ze, and they 2008

  • Boredoms and Tom Petty, whose "Breakdown" the Foo Fighters played during a dudely lull.

    NYT > Home Page By BEN RATLIFF 2011

  • This roster of some of the city's most beloved chefs and restaurateurs speaks volumes about how Los Angeles has embraced the dudely duo, who first came on the restaurant scene about three years ago when they opened Animal .

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Had dudely supervisor try to tell me that CC's and ML's are not the same, and that he used a "cc syringe" to measure chemical additives so his addition of 10x more chemical than called for to a sample tube was actually correct (1.2 ml's instead of .12, which is why I asked).

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Had dudely supervisor try to tell me that CC's and ML's are not the same, and that he used a "cc syringe" to measure chemical additives so his addition of 10x more chemical than called for to a sample tube was actually correct (1.2 ml's instead of .12, which is why I asked).

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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