dudey
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -uːdi
Adjective
[edit]dudey (comparative more dudey or dudier, superlative most dudey or dudiest)
- 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.