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In the early 1960s, dude became prominent in surfer culture as a synonym of guy or fella. The female equivalent was "dudette" or "dudess", but these have both fallen into disuse and "dude" is now also used as a unisex term. This more general meaning of "dude" started creeping into the mainstream in the mid-1970s.
The Online Etymological Dictionary confirms that it started as 19th century New York City slang (of unknown origin) for an "aesthetic" young man. +An gr 12:50, 11 August 2010 (UTC) The camel thing looks like a folk etymology. The folk etymology in the US (at least when I was in middle school) was that "dude" meant a cow's anus or something like ...
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Getty Images San Diego, Calif. -- home of sun, sand, surf.... and slang! Of course, San Diego slang includes the expected surfer lingo ("Dude, did you ride those swells this weekend?"), but there ...
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
The dictionary defines "demure" as reserved, modest, serious, and shy, while "mindful" means to be conscious or aware of something. Use it in a sentence: "Do you see how I do my makeup for work ...
Term used by American federal agents to refer to British government agents. Babylon Jamaican slang for members of establishments (including the police and federal agents) that are perceived as oppressive due their association with white people. [2] Downtown gang FBI: Fed Abbreviation of "federal agent" or "federal police officer". [3] Federales ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.