dude
To address someone as dudeTo address someone as dude.
» What's up, dude?
Was geht ab, Kumpel?
Як справи, чоловіче?
Як справи, друже?
Meaning
3 sensesTo address someone as dude.
To take a vacation in a dude ranch.
(US)Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes.
1990, Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future Part III, screenplay:
Buford Tannen: Especially not some duded-up egg-sucking piece of gutter trash!
Examples
124 sentencesWhat's up, dude?
Як справи, чоловіче? — deniko
deWas geht ab, Kumpel? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I met a dude named Tom.
Tom is a big dude.
Tom is a weird dude.
That dude looks like Tom.
Origin
Uncertain, though likely a clipping of doodle (“fool, simpleton, mindless person”), perhapUncertain, though likely a clipping of doodle (“fool, simpleton, mindless person”), perhaps with reference to the fashionable “Yankee Doodle dandy” in the 18th-century lyrics of the song “Yankee Doodle”; the word is first attested in 1883 as a New York City slang term of contempt for a “fastidious man, fop”. If so, then related to German Low German Dudeldop, Dudendop (“fool, dunce”), Saterland Frisian Duddigegen (“idiot”).
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Forms
dudes, dudeing, duded, dudedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle