Adjective: dudey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | dudier |
| Superlative | dudiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dudey |
| Superlative | most dudey |
Sample Sentences
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Ed was very "dudey," and had his cut so as to part all the way. [1893, Rufus Smith Green, An All-around Boy:]
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The Two Minnies had the dudiest-looking men they could git. [1981, J. Frank Dobie, Cow People, page 109:]
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Kind of a dudey lookin' fellow — except for those guns of his. [2007, William W. Johnstone, Pride of the Mountain Man / Code of the Mountain Man, page 450:]
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Not store clothes exactly, but tailor-made garments—cut, as an old comrade says, for a dudey dude, and carries a silk umbrella and sometimes wears patent leather shoes. [2016, V. P. Hughes, A Thousand Points of Truth:]
Adjectives inflected like dudey
old-timey,
nippley,
drudgey,
tomatoey,
cringey,
dudey,
dykey,
fluey,
gamey,
wifey,
ropey,
rapey,
echoey,
pricey,
tonguey,
spikey,
Etymology
From dude + -y.