dudish

comparative more dudish · superlative most dudish

1. datedLike a dude or dandy; foppish; fastidious about personal appearance.

   Women go dudish with pique trim, starched or flowered bosoms

   1950 January 23, Life, volume 28, number 4, page 45

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   He was a stiff-collar, high-headed fellow, of good intellect and had rather a dudish appearance. He went gentlemanly dressed in East Virginia style, wore a high-top silk hat, as had lawyer Park, and sported a gold headed walking cane.

   1938, Charles A. Johnson, A Narrative History of Wise County, Virginia, page 165

   Synonyms: dandyish, buckish, beauish, buckish, coxcombical, dandiacal, dandified, dandy