![]() ![]() ![]() Uncertain, though likely derived from doodle ( “ fool, simpleton, mindless person ” ), perhaps with reference to the fashionable “Yankee Doodle dandy” in the 18th-century lyrics of the song “ Yankee Doodle” the word is first attested in 1883 as a New York City slang term of contempt for a “fastidious man, fop”. The word dude used to be slang for a fastidious man or fop. His wig is so heavy that his hairdresser is supporting its weight. ![]() It is a caricature of a “ macaroni” – a dandy or fop – strolling with his hat off. you’r a compleat macaroni”, an 18th-century engraving by James Caldwall after a work by Michel-Vincent Brandoin, from the collection of the Wellcome Library in London, UK. ![]()
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