dudely
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Adjective[edit]
dudely (comparative more dudely, superlative most dudely)
- Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).
- 1992, Autumn Stephens, Wild Women[1]:
- Long before the slinky Miss Shields was a twinkle in her mama’s eye, nothing came between erstwhile Southern belle Elsa Jane Guerin and her dudely duds.
- 2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion [2]
- I love bad whiteboys, the really skanky sort of white-trash ones, you know, the ones that surf or live in the woods or just got out of prison, the dudely ones who’re sort of closeted but really straight-acting, those are the ones I always fall for.
- 2003, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Neon Nightmare[3]:
- Not many dames line up at the bar on this side, as it seems to be a dudely kind of place, what with a TV perched above the liquor-bottle wallpaper blaring out some sports contest, but one lady does attract my notice.
- 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 181:
- The films make explicit that not-gay homosexual sex is constituted by a set of dudely and homophobic gestures, the staging of a heteronormative scene bound by hetero-masculine logics, and an emotional landscape marked by repulsion and resilience.