dudey

English

Etymology

From dude + -y.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uːdi

Adjective

dudey (comparative more dudey or dudier, superlative most dudey or dudiest)

  1. Characteristic of a dude.
    • 1893, Rufus Smith Green, An All-around Boy:
      Ed was very "dudey," and had his cut so as to part all the way.
    • 1981, J. Frank Dobie, Cow People, page 109:
      The Two Minnies had the dudiest-looking men they could git.
    • 2007, William W. Johnstone, Pride of the Mountain Man / Code of the Mountain Man, page 450:
      Kind of a dudey lookin' fellow — except for those guns of his.
    • 2016, V. P. Hughes, A Thousand Points of Truth:
      Not store clothes exactly, but tailor-made garments—cut, as an old comrade says, for a dudey dude, and carries a silk umbrella and sometimes wears patent leather shoes.
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