Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a dude.
  • Like a dude; characteristic of a dude.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Like, or characterized of, a dude.

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  • adjective dated Like a dude or dandy; foppish; fastidious about personal appearance.

Etymologies

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dude +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Banty would have felt himself an awful owl were he to say it, but it somehow suited the tall, pink boy, and did not sound one particle "dudish," or offensive, and during the ten-mile drive across the Kamloops Hills Banty decided that Con was a first-rate fellow, notwithstanding his abominable clothes and "swagger" English accent.

    The Shagganappi 1913

  • Dandified, or, as we should now term them, "dudish" affairs, were not allowed at Keilhau; so various witticisms were made which culminated when a pupil of about our own age from a city on the Weser called us Berlin pomade-pots.

    The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892

  • Banty would have felt himself an awful owl were he to say it, but it somehow suited the tall, pink boy, and did not sound one particle "dudish," or offensive, and during the ten-mile drive across the Kamloops Hills Banty decided that

    The Shagganappi E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • Dandified, or, as we should now term them, "dudish" affairs, were not allowed at Keilhau; so various witticisms were made which culminated when

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Dandified, or, as we should now term them, "dudish" affairs, were not allowed at Keilhau; so various witticisms were made which culminated when a pupil of about our own age from a city on the Weser called us

    The Story of My Life — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Dandified, or, as we should now term them, "dudish" affairs, were not allowed at Keilhau; so various witticisms were made which culminated when

    The Story of My Life — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • That gives me enough time to read another book if the first is “dudish.”

    Archive 2006-11-01 ____Maggie 2006

  • That gives me enough time to read another book if the first is “dudish.”

    Frankenstein (copy) ____Maggie 2006

  • Oh, the weak and dudish creature that can't see over its collar!

    Acres of Diamonds 2008

  • And now, a break from all of the dudish priapica not that I haven't been enjoying, immensely, the discours sur les weenies, dudes and dorks, but we must move on, for this announcement:

    Dudes! The Mother of all Lists! 2006

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