dudely

English

Etymology

From dude +‎ -ly.

Adjective

dudely (comparative more dudely, superlative most dudely)

1. Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).
   • 1992, Autumn Stephens, Wild Women‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion [2]

     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.

   • 2003, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Neon Nightmare‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 181:

     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.

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