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intj
A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, annoyance, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Synonyms: mate
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A man, generally a younger man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, colloquial
Synonyms: bloke, chap, cove, guy, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chappy, chield, covey, dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), dawg, dude, fella, fellow, gadgie, gate, geezer, gink, gloak, gome, health, homeboy, homey, joe, lede, nigga, ninja, omi, pillicock, punk, rooster, seg, shalk, wallah, wer, were, wye
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A term of address for someone, often but not exclusively a man, particularly when hailing, cautioning them or offering advice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Synonyms: bro, buddy, mate, old chap
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A tourist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A birder who has expensive clothing and equipment, but scant knowledge of birds, their fieldmarks, habits, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Topics: biology, birdwatching, natural-sciences, ornithology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance; a dandy, a fop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dandy, fop, masher, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To address someone as dude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To take a vacation in a dude ranch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dandy, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: man, adult male
Narrower terms: coxcomb, cockscomb, macaroni, Brummell, George Bryan Brummell, Beau Brummell
noun
an informal form of address for a man
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fellow, buster
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: man, adult male
History
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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