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| ], a New York socialite, was dubbed "King of the Dudes." He is pictured (1888) in the ] at the time of the "battle of the Dudes".<ref name="Bryk">{{cite news|url=http://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/king-of-the-dudes/15834/|title=King of the Dudes|last=Bryk|first=William|date=June 22, 2005|work=]|accessdate=2008-11-11}}</ref><ref>Jeffers, Harry Paul (2005). ''Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age'', p.45. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0471391026</ref>]] | |||
| A '''dude''' is an infected hair on an elephant, typically male, particularly somebody well dressed or who has never lived outside a big city. The female equivalent, which is used less often, is "dudette." However, "dude" has evolved to become more unisex 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 this was true even in the 1950s.<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> | |||
| The word ''dude'' is an ] ] term generally used informally to address or refer to somebody and was once used primarily by adults but this has become a common slang term used in various age groups. | |||
| ==History== | |||
| The term "dude" was first used in print in 1876, in '']''.<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. The term was also used as a job description such as "bush hook dude" <ref>] See Tunnel Section</ref> as a position on a railroad in the 1880s. | |||
| "]," to which wealthy Easterners came to experience the "] life," began to appear in the ] in the early 20th century. | |||
| The oldest usage was typically applied to a well-dressed male, or one who is unfamiliar with life outside a large city.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} These definitions later gave rise to a more technical 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> Thus "dude" was used to describe the prude wealthy men of the rustic western expansion of the ] during the ] by ] settlers of the American Old East.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} | |||
| The word became prominent in ] culture in the early ], but it wasn't until the mid-] that it started creeping into the mainstream. Some usages in mainly American ] have contributed to the spread of this word. | |||
| ==''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 - Andy ''a dude'' and a chorus of dudes in the ] ] by ] sing ''We are the Dudes'': "''We are the dudes you read about in all the papers Social Etudes, we captivate all hearts by our capers, Bai Gawge! Once every week the Bank pays each and all of us two dollars; But, by cold cheek we sport the latest thing in coats and collars, Bai Gawge! Weep ye, en masse! We're suffering most excruciating pain; For ah! alas! The Prince of Wales has ceased to carry a cane, Bai Gawge! Till we learn whether His Highness orders that the cane shall go; Each with a feather we promenade the city streets just so, Bai Gawge!''"<ref>] '']'' Kingston, Ontario </ref> | |||
| * 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." | |||
| * 1937 - ]'s film '']'' has ]'s character describe the main protagonists as "Dudes". | |||
| * 1959 - ]'s film '']'' has ] as "Dude," the drunk deputy to ]. | |||
| * 1962 - In ]'s film ''],'' ]'s bad guy title character continually and sarcastically refers to ]'s tenderfoot lawyer character as "dude." | |||
| * 1965-68 - ], a US television show, ]'s character Alexander Scott occasionally addresses ]'s character Kelly Robinson as "dude." | |||
| * 1969 - In ]'s ] '']'', the protagonist Wyatt (]) is seen describing the word "dude" to George Hanson (]) as "...a nice guy... a regular sort of person." | |||
| * 1972 - ] releases their hit album, ], named after the title cut, which was written for the band by ]. | |||
| * 1973 - The premiere of '']'', a musical by ]. | |||
| * 1974 - ] releases their album ], which features the song "Any Major Dude Will Tell You." | |||
| * 1982 - In '']'', Jeff Spicoli (]) utilizes the word "dude" in its modern convention, "Make up your mind, dude, is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us? " | |||
| * 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." | |||
| * 1987 - ] released a song called ] | |||
| * 1988 - ], Holly ships computer greets the crew each time with "What's happening dudes?" | |||
| * 1989 - "]" premiers on Nickelodeon; it would go on to run for three years. The cast of this teenage ] set on a ] included ]. | |||
| * 1989 - ] Movie about two burn outs who travel through time in order to complete a history assignment. During their presentation, President Lincoln says, "seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!" | |||
| * 1990 - ] single "Don't Call Me Dude". | |||
| * 1996 - ] band ] titled the first track of their album ] "Hey, Dude". | |||
| * 1997 - ]'s song "We're all Dudes" from the soundtrack to the movie ]. | |||
| * 1997 - ] released an album called ]. | |||
| * 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. | |||
| *<!-- Deleted image removed: ] as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in '']''.|{{deletable image-caption|1=Wednesday, 23 September 2009}}]] -->1998 - '']'', a film by ] and featured ] 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 ], insinuates that he considers the term "dude" in its traditional sense, meaning a pretentious city-slicker type, rather than in its more contemporary sense. | |||
| * 2000 - ], a ] directed by ], starring ] and ]. | |||
| * 2001 - "Dude, you're getting a Dell!", an advertising campaign by ] Computer Corporation, starring ] as "Steven the Dell Dude." | |||
| * 2004 - HBO series, ], in its first few episodes features the character Whitney Garret, a wealthy young businessman from New York city, who has come to the Black Hills in search of a claim to prospect for gold. He is referred to throughout his appearances in the series as "That Dude from New York", or just, "The Dude". | |||
| * 2004 - In the first season of TAPS ] (episode 5), one of the investigators coins the famous "Dude run!". | |||
| * 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 | |||
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| | title = Dude! How great are those new Bud Light ads? | |||
| | work = Slate.com | |||
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| | date = 2008-01-28 | |||
| | url = http://www.slate.com/id/2182846/pagenum/all/#page_start | |||
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| | accessdate = 2008-03-10}}</ref> | |||
| ==References== | |||
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| * - By ], Published in ''American Speech'', Vol. 79, No. 3, Fall 2004, pp. 281–305 | |||
| * - Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli, '']'' | |||
| * "dude" | |||
| * - The etymological origin of the word "dude" by Barry Popik, David Shulman, and Gerald Cohen. Originally published in ''Comments on Etymology'', October 1993, Vol. 23, #1 | |||
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