In summary: dude originally meant "hipster."
Apparently. Which tells you that nothing new actually is. It also makes you wonder what a Roman hipster would have been like in Caesar's time.
a greek.
Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
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#22Dudine is my new favorite word. I think it has a very pleasant sound when used as a greeting.
I'm trying to figure out: Should it be dood-eye-n (like wine), dood-een, or dood-een-eh (like a german might say)?
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#24Thanks for the info Dude! (",)
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#25Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Which tells us nothing of what the 'doodle' in Yankee Doodle Dandy means. Yankee fine; Dandy, a foppish hipster type; Doodle???
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#26Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy Which tells us nothing of what the 'doodle' in Yankee Doodle Dandy means. Yankee fine; Dandy, a foppish hipster type; Doodle???
Etymonline says it may have been the slang meaning of the time, which was "penis". Figures.
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#27I always thought "dude" meant: The crusty tuft of hair on a horse's asshole? Seriously, a science teacher in high school read that definition from a dictionary, and handed out photocopies of it to my class, in the hopes that it would discourage us from using the word, because he got sick of hearing it. It had the opposite effect, obviously. ...but anyway, that's why I laughed when The Stranger in The Big Lebowski imp…
I don't know about the horse's ass part, but 'dude' is supposedly similar to 'yankee' in the rural western US, in the sense of being a useless, helpless outsider.
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#28Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy Which tells us nothing of what the 'doodle' in Yankee Doodle Dandy means. Yankee fine; Dandy, a foppish hipster type; Doodle???
To answer my own question: 'The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. It may derive from the German Dudeltopf or Dudeldop, meaning simpleton or noodle (literally "nightcap").' [1]
Not sure why the author of this article couldn't be bothered to complete the etymology he started.
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#29lol
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