The term “dudu” is now applied
to those dandified young society chaps in New York who are “just too nice for
anything.” The word is changed from
dodo, an extinct member of the duck species, the peculiarity of which was its
ridiculously small wings and tail on a big, puffed-up body.
The
Rock Island Argus (Illinois), February 28, 1883, page 2 (The same article appeared in the Burlington Weekly Free Press (Vermont) (March
9, 1883, page 3) with the word correctly spelled as, “dude”.
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