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dudely

dudely adjective: of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).

Adjective

dudely (comparative more dudely, superlative most dudely)

  1. Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).
    • Long before the slinky Miss Shields was a twinkle in her mama’s eye, nothing came between erstwhile Southern belle Elsa Jane Guerin and her dudely duds.1992, Autumn Stephens, Wild Women
    • I love bad whiteboys, the really skanky sort of white-trash ones, you know, the ones that surf or live in the woods or just got out of prison, the dudely ones who’re sort of closeted but really straight-acting, those are the ones I always fall for.2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1560239980&id=U1N20gh2p-MC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=dudely&sig=zXwiJUJHq_brxfa-MBKQt4aev-o

Forms of dudely

comparativemore dudely
superlativemost dudely

Origin of dudely

From dude + -ly.

Words formed from dudely

Questions about dudely

What does dudely mean?
Dudely means of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).
What part of speech is dudely?
Dudely is an adjective.

Words near dudely in the dictionary

  1. Dudelange
  2. dudeless
  3. dudelet
  4. dudelets
  5. dudeliness
  6. dudely
  7. dudeness
  8. Dudeney
  9. duderus
  10. dudes
  11. dudes up

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