^ “ dude”, in Unabridged,, LLC, 1995–present.^ Barry Popik Gerald Cohen (October–November 2013) Comments on Etymology, volume 23, issue 1 see Allan Metcalf ( 21 October 2013), “Dude!”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education‎, archived from the original on 4 March 2016.Swedish: jao ( immigrant slang ), jaow (sv) ( same ).Spanish: compadre (es) m, ( Spain ) colega (es) m, ( River Plate ) flaco (es) m, ( Mexico ) güey (es) m, ( Andes, Central America, Caribbean, Mexico ) mano (es) m, ( Colombia ) parce (es), ( Spain ) tío (es), mae (es) m ( Costa Rica ), maje (es) m ( Central America ), marica (es) m ( Colombia, slightly vulgar ).Portuguese: cara (pt) m ( Brazil ), tipo (pt) m ( Portugal ), pá (pt) ( Portugal ).Polish: koleś (pl) m, koleżka (pl) m, ziomek (pl) m, typek (pl) m, stary (pl) m, chłop (pl) m.Italian: socio (it) m, amico (it) m, zio (it) m.

French: mec (fr) m, mon pote m (rare), man (fr) m (rare), gars (fr) m (very rare).

Dutch: kerel (nl) m, maat (nl) m, vent (nl) m.

Swedish: snubbe (sv), kille (sv), jeppe (sv).

Spanish: tipo (es) m, mae (es) m ( Costa Rica ), tío (es) m ( Spain ), bato (es), compay m.

Portuguese: cara (pt) m ( Brazil ), tipo (pt) m ( Portugal ).

Polish: koleś (pl), gość (pl) m, gościu (pl) m, gostek (pl) m, typek (pl) m, ziomek (pl) m, ziomal (pl) m, zią m ( joking ), gościara f, kolesiówna f, typiara (pl) f, facet (pl) m, facio (pl) m, ziomuś (pl) m, chłop (pl) m ( sometimes ).

German: Kerl (de) m, Junge (de) m ( Switzerland ).

French: gars (fr) m, mec (fr) m, type (fr) m.

Finnish: jätkä (fi), hemmo (fi), tyyppi (fi), heppu (fi), heebo (fi), jäbä (fi), jäpikäs, kaveri (fi), äijä (fi).Danish: fyr (da) c, starut c, fætter (da) c.( chiefly US, Canada, colloquial ) A man, generally a younger man.( General American ) IPA ( key): /duːd/,.( Received Pronunciation ) enPR: d(y)o͞od, IPA ( key): /d(j)uːd/.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. It has also been suggested the word derives from the Irish dúid. It has also been suggested that the word is derived from dudes (“old rags” compare duds) and dudesman ( “ scarecrow ” ), or possibly related to dawdle to German Low German Dudeldop, Dudendop ( “ fool, dunce ” ), from Middle Low German dudendop ( “ cuckold simpleton ” ) or to Saterland Frisian Duddigegen ( “ idiot ” ). Origin uncertain, though likely derived from 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”. The word dude used to be slang for a fastidious man or fop. His wig is so heavy that his hairdresser is supporting its weight.

It is a caricature of a “ macaroni” – a dandy or fop – strolling with his hat off.

you’r a compleat macaroni”, an 18th-century engraving by James Caldwall after a work by Michel-Vincent Brandoin, from the collection of the Wellcome Library in London, UK.

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