rude

Synonyms
1. uncivil, unmannerly, curt, brusque, impertinent, impudent, saucy, pert, fresh. 1, 3. See boorish. 2. unrefined, uncultured, uncivilized, uncouth, coarse, vulgar, rough. 6. See raw. 8. rustic, artless. 9. stormy, fierce, tumultuous, turbulent.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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rude (ruːd)

—*adj*
1.	insulting or uncivil; discourteous; impolite: he was rude about her hairstyle
2.	lacking refinement; coarse or uncouth
3.	vulgar or obscene: a rude joke
4.	unexpected and unpleasant: a rude awakening to the facts of economic life
5.	roughly or crudely made: we made a rude shelter on the island
6.	rough or harsh in sound, appearance, or behaviour
7.	humble or lowly
8.	(prenominal) robust or sturdy: in rude health
9.	(prenominal) approximate or imprecise: a rude estimate

[C14: via Old French from Latin rudis coarse, unformed]

'rudely

—*adv*

'rudeness

—n

'rudery

—n

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Word Origin & History

rude

c.1280, "coarse, rough" (of surfaces), from L. rudis "rough, crude, unlearned," perhaps related to rudus "rubble." Sense of "ill-mannered" is from late 14c. Rudesby "insolent, unmannerly fellow" is from 1566. Rude boy (also rudie, for short) in Jamaican slang is attested from 1967. Fig. phrase rude awakening

is attested from 1895.

Slang Dictionary

rude definition

mod.
undesirable; unpleasant. : The prof in my history class is a rude dude, for sure.
mod.
cool; pleasant; excellent. : Man, that's a rude bike!

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Computing Dictionary

rude definition

[WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor design decisions. Opposite: cuspy.
2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack. Compare all-elbows.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-27)

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