dude

dude  (dd, dyd)

n.

1. Informal An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West.

2. Informal A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor.

3. Slang

a. A man; a fellow.

b. dudes Persons of either sex.

tr.v. dud·ed, dud·ing, dudes

Slang To dress elaborately or flamboyantly: got all duded up for the show.

interj. Slang

Used to express approval, satisfaction, or congratulations.

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[Origin unknown.]

Our Living Language Cowboys and the Wild West are indelibly set in the minds of many as typical of Americaan association borne out by several common Modern English words that originated in the speech of the 19th-century western United States. One is dude, now perhaps most familiar as a slang term with a wide range of uses (including use as an all-purpose interjection for expressing approval: "Dude!"). Originally it was applied to fancy-dressed city folk who went out west on vacation. In this usage it first appears in the 1870s. The origin of the word is not known, but a number of other cowboy terms were borrowed by early settlers from American Spanish. These include buckaroo, corral, lasso, mustang, ranch, rodeo, and stampede. Buckaroo, interestingly, is an example of a word borrowed twice: it is an Americanized form of Spanish vaquero, which also made it into English as vaquero, a cowboy.

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dude [duːd djuːd]

n Informal

1. Western US and Canadian a city dweller, esp one holidaying on a ranch

2. Chiefly US and Canadian a dandy

3. US and Canadian a person: often used to any male in direct address

[of unknown origin]

dudish  adj

dudishly  adv

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	dude - an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" buster, fellow adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
	2.	dude - a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance dandy, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, clotheshorse, swell coxcomb, cockscomb - a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments macaroni - a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"

Translations

dude [djuːd] (US)

A. N (= guy) → tío m, tipo m; (= dandy) → petimetre m

B. CPD dude ranch N → rancho m para turistas

DUDE RANCH

Se llama dude ranch a un rancho del oeste de Estados Unidos que se abre a los turistas para ofrecerles el sabor de la vida del oeste al aire libre. Puede ser un rancho que funciona como tal en la realidad o uno que recrea la atmósfera tradicional de los vaqueros. Los turistas pueden montar a caballo, ayudar en las tareas del rancho o probar la comida hecha en el carromato (chuck-wagon) alrededor de la hoguera. Dude es una palabra que pertenece al argot americano, usada para referirse a una persona de ciudad muy bien vestida o a alguien del este.

dude [ˈdjuːd ˈduːd] (US) n (= man) → mec m >

dude

n (US)

(inf: = man) → Kerl m (inf); yo dude! (sl: = hi) → hi Alter! (inf), → hey Dicker! (inf)

(dated: = dandy) → Dandy m

(dated: = city type) → Städter m, → feiner Stadtpinkel (pej inf)