[Ads-l] Facebook: _dude_

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

This isn't an urgent issue, but the dates of the 1877 and 1879 quotes are both incorrect.
This was treated already a few years ago in Comments on Etymology; I don't have the 
reference handy but could locate it. The earliest attestations of "dude" remain 1883.
Gerald Cohen 
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Joel Berson [berson at ATT.NET], June 22, 2016 12:38 PM, wrote:
The OED has 1877 and 1879 for (noun) 1. "A man who shows an ostentatious re=
gard for fashion and style in regard to dress or appearance; a dandy, a fop=
."=C2=A0 And several 1883 quotations calling "dude" (and "dood") new slang.
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