dudelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dudelets
Etymology: From dude + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, the bullfrog is a-croaking And the dudelet is a-smoking
ref: 1903, Ambrose Bierce, “To a Summer Poet”, in Shapes of Clay:
text: Do we want a citizen soldiery composed of such men as those who, since 1794, have served in the ranks of the Gordon Highlanders, or composed of such men as the Gardeners of Japan, who wrested Port Arthur from the Russians, or do we want to depend on a national militia of citizen soldiers enrolled from among the pink-cheeked dudelets and mush-faced weaklings from the apartments, flats, and tenements of our congested cities or factory towns, whose highest ambition is to smoke cigarettes, ape a fashion plate, or stand and gape at a baseball score on a bulletin board?
ref: 1915, George Hebard Maxwell, Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace, →ISBN:
text: Yes — and talking about parasites, my friends, how long will it be before the decent working-men of England tire of the miserable gang of fools, liars and dudelets who had the barefaced impudence to decree that the year 1887 should be one of Jubilation?
ref: 1944, William Cameron, The Day is Coming, page 8:
synonyms: word: cockney
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: bading
word: big girl's blouse
word: cockney
word: cot-quean
word: cupcake
word: dudelet
word: fakaleiti
word: fairy
word: femboy
word: gentleman
word: ginch
word: girl's blouse
word: girlyman
word: janegirl
word: jessie
word: nancy
word: nancyboy
word: nancy pants
word: pansy
word: Percy
word: poof
word: poofter
word: posy sniffer
word: pretty boy
word: puss-gentleman
word: quiche-eater
word: sissy
word: softling
word: soy boy
word: swish
word: twink
word: zenana
word: cockscomb
word: fribble
word: popinjay
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: An effeminate young man who strives to be fashionable; a dandy.
examples: text: At first the dudelet, Taking a dash of ginger in his lemonade ; Then the older dude, with his small salary.
ref: 1890, William T. Hall, The Turnover Club, page 25:
text: But now and then a dudelet who is new to the ways of the world pauses for a moment at the glittering windows, and is lost.
ref: 1892, Life - Volume 20, page 348:
text: Cyberfolks are already hip to the antics of Dancing Baby — the slightly demonic, diapered dudelet who's been boogalooing all over the Web for months.
ref: 1998, Newsweek - Volume 131:
glosses: A young boy, especially one who is fashionable or popular.
examples: text: Dude and Dudelet on the beach, Upon the beach so sandy. The Dude, he wooed ; the Dudelet cooed, And nibbled Maillard's candy.
ref: 1883, The Harvard Lampoon - Volume 5, Issue 5, page 42:
text: In marriage, let frivolous and light-minded women gravitate to inferior men; and let the " Dude" mate with the "Dudelet." But I insist that pure and noble women shall be saved from marriage with impure and ignoble men.
ref: 1883, Dio Lewis's Monthly - Volume 1, page 37:
synonyms: word: dandizette
word: quaintrelle
word: dandizette
word: dandyess
word: dudelet
word: quaintrelle
glosses: A fashionable young woman.