different between dudine vs didine

English

Etymology

dude +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: dud?ine

Noun

dudine (plural dudines)

1. (obsolete) A woman who is very concerned about her dress and appearance; a female dude.
   • Sam Jones' Own Book: A Series of Sermons Collected and Edited Under the Author's Own Supervision, Page 251 by Sam Porter Jones, Publisher: Cranston and Stowe Pub:1887... in the universe is the natural product of fashionable society, the dude and the dudine; and you never catch a dude and a dudine marrying one another. ...
   • Stories of a Country Doctor - Page 324 by Willis Percival King - 1891 She was between sixty and seventy years of age at this time and was as pronounced a specimen of the type dudine as I ever saw.
   • Thomas Ruffin - Page 285 by Edward Winslow Gilliam - 1896 ..., one on each side, dudes and dudine—she sounding her vowels in the broad style heard in the drawing-room of the 400, and they looking sweet upon her ...

Anagrams

• indued, undied

English

Adjective

didine (comparative more didine, superlative most didine)

1. Of, or pertaining to dodos
2. (figuratively) Extinct.
3. (figuratively) Obsolete; out of date.
4. (figuratively) Very old or having very old-fashioned views and unwilling to change or adapt.

Noun

didine (plural didines)

1. (ornithology, obsolete) A member of the Raphinae subfamily of birds.

Anagrams

• indide