tude

tude

slang A shortening of "attitude," referring to someone's insolent or rebellious attitude. Sometimes spelled with an apostrophe at the beginning. Enough with the 'tude, Tommy. I asked you to cut the lawn, now do it. They tried to shoehorn in a character with a lot of "tude" to appeal to the younger audience, but it just came across as pandering.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tude

(tud)
n. a bad attitude. Hey, you really got a tude, dude.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • devil-may-care attitude
  • cop an attitude
  • have a bad attitude
  • go full circle
  • (the) Dunkirk spirit
  • bring (something) full circle
  • be nothing to do with (someone or something)
  • be/have nothing to do with somebody/something
  • sing a different song
  • sing another tune
References in periodicals archive
Dossin says he thinks that the spacing between mid-19th century piano keys must have been smaller than it is today because Liszt used rapid parallel 10ths - in other words, playing a chord that stretches two notes past an octave - in the original tudes.
As the composer matured, she says, he realized that the music of the tudes was more important than technical dazzle.