dudelet

An effeminate young man who strives to be fashionable; a dandy.

Yes, the bullfrog is a-croaking And the dudelet is a-smoking

Do we want a citizen soldiery composed of such men as those who, since 1794, have served in the ranks of the Gordon Highlanders, or composed of such men as the Gardeners of Japan, who wrested Port Arthur from the Russians, or do we want to depend on a national militia of citizen soldiers enrolled from among the pink-cheeked dudelets and mush-faced weaklings from the apartments, flats, and tenements of our congested cities or factory towns, whose highest ambition is to smoke cigarettes, ape a fashion plate, or stand and gape at a baseball score on a bulletin board?

A young boy, especially one who is fashionable or popular.

At first the dudelet, Taking a dash of ginger in his lemonade ; Then the older dude, with his small salary.

But now and then a dudelet who is new to the ways of the world pauses for a moment at the glittering windows, and is lost.

A fashionable young woman.

Dude and Dudelet on the beach, Upon the beach so sandy. The Dude, he wooed ; the Dudelet cooed, And nibbled Maillard's candy.

In marriage, let frivolous and light-minded women gravitate to inferior men; and let the " Dude" mate with the "Dudelet." But I insist that pure and noble women shall be saved from marriage with impure and ignoble men.