Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
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#3In summary: dude originally meant "hipster."
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#4Dudine is my new favorite word. I think it has a very pleasant sound when used as a greeting.
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#5Cue a hundred "Dude" jokes.
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#6In 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.
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#7In summary: dude originally meant "hipster."
Which leads to another problem, that "hipster" has more or less lost all meaning. So perhaps another parallel should be drawn.
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#8Cue a hundred "Dude" jokes.
Fuck it, Doodle, let's go bowling.
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#9Google needs to update their database then: https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+dude