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dudely en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English dude Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English dudely From dude + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).
   • The films make explicit that not-gay homosexual sex is constituted by a set of dudely and homophobic gestures, the staging of a heteronormative scene bound by hetero-masculine logics, and an emotional landscape marked by repulsion and resilience. 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 181:
   • 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 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.
   • Not many dames line up at the bar on this side, as it seems to be a dudely kind of place, what with a TV perched above the liquor-bottle wallpaper blaring out some sports contest, but one lady does attract my notice. 2003, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Neon Nightmare:
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

dudeliness