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Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Kudos 13y agoI always thought dude came from the Irish word "Dúd" or "Dúdaire". http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/nyregion/08irish.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/nyregion/08irish.html
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- ewzimm 13y agoIn summary: dude originally meant "hipster."
- ChuckMcM 13y agoApparently. 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.
- mmanfrin 13y agoCaesar was considered a 'hipster' in his time (prior to his conquest). He supported plebian donatives and programs, which created a populist support base but engendered distrust and hatred from the Optimates (conservatives). He was also said to have a different style of dress than was the norm.
- guscost 13y agoThen a hipster is a leftist with weird clothes?
- beachstartup 13y agoa greek.
- guscost 13y ago"I used to make burnt offerings to Athena before it was cool."
- DrewRWx 13y agoYou mean Minerva.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoGreek culture and language were a prestige thing in classical Rome; they were practiced by the very upper crust of society. There's a reason Julius Caesar's last words were said to have been in Greek. I don't think hipsters have achieved quite that level of glamour.
- devindotcom 13y agoWhich leads to another problem, that "hipster" has more or less lost all meaning. So perhaps another parallel should be drawn.
- barbs 13y agoNow I'm curious as to the origin of "hipster"...
- chocolate_ 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29
- Sandman 13y agoIn 1940s the term "hipster", it seems, stood for a person who was cool, "hip": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29 This might interest you as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_%28etymology%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_%28etymology%29
- stiles 13y agoDudine is my new favorite word. I think it has a very pleasant sound when used as a greeting.
- noonespecial 13y agoI'm trying to figure out: Should it be dood-eye-n (like wine), dood-een, or dood-een-eh (like a german might say)?
- krapp 13y agosecond one.
- evincarofautumn 13y agoAs an English & French speaker I would say [du̵ːˈdiːn] (dood-EEN).
- thrillgore 13y agoCue a hundred "Dude" jokes.
- csixty4 13y agoFuck it, Doodle, let's go bowling.
- McKittrick 13y agothe dood abides.
- joejohnson 13y agoGoogle needs to update their database then: https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+dude https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+dude
- tokenadult 13y agoI'm curious about how the Hacker News duplicate detector is working today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677539 and how the policy about titles of submissions is being implemented by the moderation team. The article kindly submitted here is a very interesting article.
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- tenderLoins 13y agoI always thought "dude" meant: The crusty tuft of hair on a horse's asshole? Seriously, a science teacher in high school read that definition from a dictionary, and handed out photocopies of it to my class, in the hopes that it would discourage us from using the word, because he got sick of hearing it. It had the opposite effect, obviously. ...but anyway, that's why I laughed when The Stranger in The Big Lebowski implied, with subtlety, the same meaning when he said it was a name "no one would self-apply" where he came from. I'm sticking with "hairy horse anus."
- bcoates 13y agoI don't know about the horse's ass part, but 'dude' is supposedly similar to 'yankee' in the rural western US, in the sense of being a useless, helpless outsider.
- jjdro 13y agoDude! what doth my tattoo read? Sweet! what doth my tattoo read? DUDE! What doth mine read? Dude Where's My Horseless Carriage
- ScottBurson 13y agoIt says that "Immense!" was a common dude expression in 1883 -- it doesn't say for what, exactly, but I presume appreciation. I like it, actually! I'm going to start using it and see if I can start a trend. Immense!
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoI'm kind of excited about "but aw." I'd like to imagine it means "I know, right?"
- evincarofautumn 13y agoI don’t know the true origin, but it sounds like Scots to me. “Aw” = “all”, and “but aw” would presumably be like “after all”, or “though” in Bristol (or maybe Yorkshire?) dialects.
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- kimonos 13y agoThanks for the info Dude! (",)
- scoot 13y agoEtymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy Which tells us nothing of what the 'doodle' in Yankee Doodle Dandy means. Yankee fine; Dandy, a foppish hipster type; Doodle???
- mistercow 13y agoEtymonline says it may have been the slang meaning of the time, which was "penis". Figures.
- scoot 13y agoTo answer my own question: 'The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. It may derive from the German Dudeltopf or Dudeldop, meaning simpleton or noodle (literally "nightcap").' [1] Not sure why the author of this article couldn't be bothered to complete the etymology he started. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodle
- basyt 13y agolol
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- cstavish 13y agoHe peed on your fucking rug.
- flurie 13y agoI never thought that I'd have the chance to submit on topic one of my favorite figures from history. Behold the king of the dudes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evander_Berry_Wall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evander_Berry_Wall. ed. This is actually a better link: http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1907811 http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1907811
- jonnathanson 13y ago"For a correct definition of the expression the anxious inquirer has only to turn to the tight-trousered, brief-coated, eye-glassed, fancy-vested, sharp-toes shod, vapid youth who abounds in the Metropolis at present." I submit that this definition is as true today as it was in 1887.
- evincarofautumn 13y agoThe contemporary term is “hipster”.
- squirejons 13y agothe Doodle abides....and somehow I take comfort in that...
- DateK 13y agodoodle -> dude google -> guge (sorry that must have come)