dudeship
English
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editdudeship (plural dudeships)
- The quality or condition of being a dude.
- 1884, “How I Became a Dude”, in Grip, volume 22, page 23:
- To cut the matter short, I was measured and in due course of time my regalia of dudeship was sent home, none of the minutest details being omitted.
- 1926, Oliver Hezzelwood, Poems and a Play: "The Invisible Urge", page 143:
- Come on, Toney, shed your dudeship and get into the clothes of a man.
- 1958, Edward Estlin Cummings, Eimi, page 381:
- ...his dudeship languidly informs myself that once-very- is the Russian wife of a Turk, alias the chiefly hatwearer...
- 1976, Comments on Etymology - Volumes 27-29, page 40:
- "Never mind the cigar," said his dudeship; "I can't smoke the beastly things. I'll take ten cents."