‘youse guys’ need to know that the word ‘Dude’ was coined by Oscar Wilde who compounded ‘Duds with Attitude’
of course Wilde was a bone smuggler so who knows what kind of attitude he was referring to.
This was carried on by the group Mott the Hoople with the song “All The Young Dudes.” Not sure I ever knew what the lyrics meant. Thought it was bone smuggler talk.
This was carried on by the group Mott the Hoople with the song “All The Young Dudes.” Not sure I ever knew what the lyrics meant. Thought it was bone smuggler talk.
RE: the word ‘Dude’ was coined by Oscar Wilde who compounded ‘Duds with Attitude’
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From Wikiepdia:
A dude is an individual, typically male, particularly somebody well dressed or who has never lived outside a big city. The female equivalent, which is used less often, is “dudette” or “dudess”. However, “dude” has evolved to become more unisex to encompass all genders,[3] and this was true even in the 1950s.[4]
The word dude is an American English slang term generally used informally to address or refer to somebody and was once used primarily by adults but this has become a common slang term used in various age groups.
The term “dude” was first used in print in 1870, in Putnam’s Magazine.[5]
One of the earliest books to use the word was The Home and Farm Manual, written by Jonathan Periam in 1883. In that work, Periam used the term “dude” several times to denote an ill-bred and ignorant, but ostentatious, man from the city. The term was also used as a job description such as “bush hook dude” [6] as a position on a railroad in the 1880s.
(NOTE: THE ENTIRE Wikipedia article NEVER mentions Oscar Wilde at all ).
A dude with attitude?