Dude
[dood, dyood]
Dudes, believe it or not, have been around since 1883. An 1883 article from the New-York Mirror describes dudes, or doods, as “tight-trousered, brief-coated, eye-glassed, fancy-vested, sharp-toes shod†fops of New York City. To dude up means to dress in one fanciest, best, or most stylish clothes, and has been used since the late 1800s. The term dude ranch came to English just before 1920 and refers to a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort. This evokes the image of a city dandy trying to experience rural life for novelty’s sake. Back in the 1883, the female counterpart of the dude was known as the dudine, however, over time dude has come to apply to most any person, both male and female, perhaps most famously to the character of “the Dude†in The Big Lebowski.
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