Meaning of dudely | Babel Free

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Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).

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“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 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1560239980&id=U1N20gh2p-MC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=dudely&sig=zXwiJUJHq_brxfa-MBKQt4aev-o 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.”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

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