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Where did the word "Dude" come from anyway?

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potterarch... potterarch...
 
 November 15, 2009 06:59 PM
The term "dude" was first recorded in 1883 as New York slang for "fastidious man" (very like how "metrosexual" is used today). It was later used to refer to finicky, well-dressed "city boys" who had decided to try their luck out west, but were rather inexperienced at being cowboys (which is where the term "dude ranches" came from). "Dude" resurfaced in the 1960s surfer culture as the meaning we know today, for reasons unknown (as far as I can find).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude

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vfallenang... vfallenang...
 
November 15, 2009 02:47 PM
The word Dude means an individual mostly male, the word dudette for famales first came about in 1873 and mostly refered to as a job like bush hook dude or as such in dude ranches.
Most seem to think that it origanlly ment a well dressed man hanging out in the old west. I personlly think surfers somewhere desided they needed a word to call they're buds and dude was it. I have also heard that A Dude is what they call a hair on an elephants butt, but I haven't researched enough to know if that part is true.
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edwardclin... edwardclin...
 
November 15, 2009 03:01 PM
Dude" come from the influence of americanism.

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"dude
  /dud, dyud/ Show Spelled Pronunciation dyood Show IPA noun, verb, dud⋅ed, dud⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners.
2. Slang. fellow; chap.
3. a person reared in a large city.
4. Western U.S. an urban Easterner who vacations on a ranch.
—Verb phrase
5. dude up, Informal. to dress in one's fanciest, best, or most stylish clothes; dress up: He got all duded up to go to the dance.
Origin:
1880–85, Americanism; orig. uncert.

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