Dude is American English slang for an individual, typically male. From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner a dandy or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "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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The word was used to refer to Easterners and referred to a man with store bought clothes. The word was used by cowboys to unfavorably refer to the city dwellers.
A variation of this was a well-dressed man who is unfamiliar with life outside a large city". In The Home and Farm Manual (1883), author Jonathan Periam used the term dude several times to denote an ill-bred and ignorant, but ostentatious, man from the city.
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