dudely

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivedudely (comparative more dudely, superlative most 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
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    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

    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

Origin

  1. Englishdude
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishdudely

From dude + -ly.

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APA

dudely. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudely

MLA

“dudely.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudely. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dudely,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudely.

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