dude

Bedeutung (English)

1. (colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
2. (colloquial) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
3. An inexperienced cowboy.
4. (slang) A tourist.
5. A man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance; a dandy, a fop.

Kerl

Geck

Bursche ''m'' -n

Modenarr

vain person

city dweller

Frequenz

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/duːd/

Cognate with Saterfriesisch

Cognate with Irisch

In summary

Uncertain, 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”). It has also been suggested that the word is derived from dudes (“old rags”; compare duds) and dudesman (“scarecrow”), or possibly related to dawdle; It has also been suggested the word derives from the Irish dúid. The common claim that the term derives from (or is) a word for a camel's foreskin (or some other vulgar thing, like a hair on a cow, horse, donkey, or elephant's bottom) is false.

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