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SweetFreedom Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
But stuck out?
Does "but stuck out" mean "but didn't do as the Romans do"?
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Dude is an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English slang term[1] for an individual. It typically applies to males, although the word can encompass all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genders.
Dude is an old term, recognized by multiple generations although potentially with slightly different meanings.[2] From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a person who dressed in an extremely fashion-forward manner (a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy) or a citified person who was visiting a rural location but stuck out (a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_slicker). In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s. Current slang retains at least some use of all three of these common meanings.
Context:
Dude is an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English slang term[1] for an individual. It typically applies to males, although the word can encompass all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genders.
Dude is an old term, recognized by multiple generations although potentially with slightly different meanings.[2] From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a person who dressed in an extremely fashion-forward manner (a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy) or a citified person who was visiting a rural location but stuck out (a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_slicker). In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s. Current slang retains at least some use of all three of these common meanings.
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SweetFreedom Does "but stuck out" mean "but didn't do as the Romans do"? That is a poor choice of comparisons, but yes. )
- SweetFreedom Does "but stuck out" mean "but didn't do as the Romans do"?
- That is a poor choice of comparisons, but yes.
- )
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SweetFreedomDoes "but stuck out" mean "but didn't do as the Romans do"?That is a poor choice of comparisons, but yes. (It is unwise to match one idiom with another, since neither means what its individual words mean and each is likely used differently.)
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