dudey

English

Etymology

From dude +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːdi

Adjective

dudey (comparative more dudey or dudier, superlative most dudey or dudiest)

1. Characteristic of a dude.
   • 1893, Rufus Smith Green, An All-around Boy:

     Ed was very "dudey," and had his cut so as to part all the way.

   • 1981, J. Frank Dobie, Cow People, page 109:

     The Two Minnies had the dudiest-looking men they could git.

   • 2007, William W. Johnstone, Pride of the Mountain Man / Code of the Mountain Man, page 450:

     Kind of a dudey lookin' fellow — except for those guns of his.

   • 2016, V. P. Hughes, A Thousand Points of Truth:

     Not store clothes exactly, but tailor-made garments—cut, as an old comrade says, for a dudey dude, and carries a silk umbrella and sometimes wears patent leather shoes.