dude

CEFRB1

/duːd/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A man or boy; an informal form of address.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A term of address for someone, often but not exclusively a man, particularly when hailing, cautioning them or offering advice.

Examples

  • That party was off the hook, dude!

  • You suck dude! I have to tell you everything!

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [dʉːwd]
  • /d(j)uːd/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A tourist.

  2. A man, generally a younger man.

  3. A birder who has expensive clothing and equipment, but scant knowledge of birds, their fieldmarks, habits, etc.

More examples

In context

  • Dude, I'd be careful around the principal; he's having a bad day.

  • So we were at the mall and these two dudes just walk up to us and say "hi".

  • Hey, dude, how's it going?

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Uncertain, though likely a clipping of doodle (“fool, simpleton, mindless person”), perhaps with reference to the fashionable “Yankee Doodle dandy” in the 18th-century lyrics of the song “Yankee Doodle”; the word is first attested in 1883 as a New York City slang term of contempt for a “fastidious man, fop”. If so, then related to German Low German Dudeldop, Dudendop (“fool, dunce”), Saterland Frisian Duddigegen (“idiot”). It has also been suggested that the word is derived from dudes (“old rags”; compare duds) and dudesman (“scarecrow”), or possibly related to dawdle; It has also been suggested the word derives from the Irish dúid. The common claim that the term derives from (or is) a word...