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], a New York socialite, was dubbed "King of the Dudes." He is pictured (1888) | ||
| The term '''dude''' is an ] ] word generally used informally to address a male individual. The word was once used primarily by adult suck but has become a common slang term used in various age groups. The female equivalent, which is used less often, is "dudette." However, the term "dude" has evolved to become a more unisex term to encompass both genders<ref name=unisex1>{{Cite web|url= http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/language/slang.htm|title=Slang|author=Winona Bullard, Shirley Johnson, Jerkeshea Morris, Kelly Fox, Cassie Howell}}</ref>, and was true even in the 1950s, when the word was used in its more traditional sense.<ref name=oldunisex>{{Cite web|url= http://www.jstor.org/pss/453362|title=The meanings and etymologies of dude|author=Robert Knoll|year=1952}}</ref> It can alternatively be spelled "dood." | |||
| ==Usage== | |||
| Historically, the word usually has been used as a ] describing a type of man, or as an ]. The tone and inflection of the word "dude" are used to convey the various meanings. For example, someone may be a "surfer dude." "Dude" is considered to be ], similar to the phrase "]." | |||
| "Dude" is also used alone in a sentence as an interjection denoting a feeling of surprise, happiness, disappointment, amazement or other ]s.<ref name= male>{{Cite web|url= http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-dude.htm l|title=Dude|quote=A man; a guy|work=The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English|year=2006|accessdate=2007-05-15|publisher=]}}</ref> As an interjection, a short, clipped "dude!" might be used to convey annoyance with someone, while a long, drawn-out "duuuude" conveys amazement. The word might also be used almost anywhere in a sentence in order to convey such sentiments in conversation, as in, "Listen, dude, we have to go." | |||
| Other, older definitions ofhannahwell-dressed male or one who is unfamiliar with life outside a large city. These definitions may go hand-in-hand, hence the phrased definition "an Easterner in the West" (United States).<ref name= west>{{cite web | url =http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dude | title =''"Dude"'', Def. 2 - The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary| accessdate =2007-05-08 | publisher =©]}}</ref> | |||
| ==History== | |||
| The term "dude" was first used in speech in 1873. It was first used in print in 1876, in ''Putnam's Magazine''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mapes Dodge|first=Mary|year=1901|title=St. Nicholas|publisher=Scribner & Co.|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=3WQAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA734&dq=origin+of+the+word+dude|accessdate=2008-12-15}}</ref> | |||
| One of the earliest books to use the word was ''The Home and Farm Manual'', written by Jonathan Periam in 1883. In that work, Periam used the term "dude" several times to denote an ill-bred and ignorant, but ostentatious, man from the city. | |||
| "]," to which wealthy Easterners came to experience the "] life," began to appear in the ] in the early 20th century. | |||
| It became prominent in ] culture in the early ], but it wasn't until the mid-] that it started creeping into the mainstream. Some usages in ] have contributed to the spread of this word:{{Fact|date=July 2007}} | |||
| ==''Dude'' in popular culture== | |||
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| * 1883 - ] of ] pictures the refined, well-dressed President, with the caption, "According to your cloth you've cut your coat, O Dude of all the White House residents; We trust that will help you with the vote, When next we go nominating Presidents." | |||
| * 1889 - ] by ] comments on how commoners in Medieval Britain worshiped nobility and title without question, for the sake only of a meaningless title: "...and the best of English commoners was still content to see his inferiors impudently continuing to hold a number of positions, such as lordships and the throne, to which the grotesque laws of his country did not allow him to aspire; in fact, he was even able to persuade himself that he was proud of it. It seems to show that there isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too - I know that; but when I left America it had disappeared - at least to all intents and purposes. The remnant of it was restricted to the dudes and dudesses. When a disease has worked its way down to that level, it may fairly be said to be out of the system." | |||
| * 1973 - The premiere of '']'', a musical by ]. | |||
| * 1985 - '']'' (a novel by ]) includes the first published usage of the now-common phrase, "No way, dude!", and the first mainstream display of "dude" having crossed the gender barrier. In a noteworthy scene, a young woman tells her mother, "No way, dude." | |||
| * 1989 - "]" premiers on Nickelodeon; it would go on to run for three years. The cast of this teenage ] set on a ] included ]. | |||
| * 1993 - ]'s comedy album "They're All Gonna Laugh at You" features the track "Buddy," in which several characters have a conversation composed almost entirely of the words "buddy," "homey," and "dude." | |||
| * 1998 - '']'', featuring ] and ] as two young men who, at one point in the film, have an argument composed entirely of the word "dude," with their inflections conveying the meaning of each instance of the word. | |||
| * 1998 - '']'', a film by ] and featuring ] as "The Dude" ("or His Dudeness, or Duder, or, you know, El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing"), an aging hippie/beach bum, turns "Dude" into a philosophy. The film's narrator, an old-fashioned cowboy played by ], mentions that he considers the term "dude" in its traditional sense, meaning a pretentious city-slicker type, rather than in its more contemporary sense. ] as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in '']''.]] | |||
| * 2008 - ] airs an ] in which the dialogue consists entirely of different inflections of "Dude!" and does not mention the product by name. <ref>{{cite web | |||
| | last = Swansburg | |||
| | first = John | |||
| | authorlink = | |||
| | coauthors = | |||
| | title = Dude! How great are those new Bud Light ads? | |||
| | work = Slate.com | |||
| | publisher = | |||
| | date = 2008-01-28 | |||
| | url = http://www.slate.com/id/2182846/pagenum/all/#page_start | |||
| | format = | |||
| | doi = | |||
| | accessdate = 2008-03-10}}</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| ] | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| {{wiktionary|dude}} | |||
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| * - By Kiesling, Scott F., Published in ''American Speech'', Vol. 79, No. 3, Fall 2004, pp. 281-305 | |||
| * You've Come a Long Way, Dude: A History, By Richard A. Hill, ''American Speech'', Vol. 69, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 321-327 | |||
| * - Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli, '']'' | |||
| * "dude" | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{reflist}} | |||
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