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-ette is a feminine suffix. If you add it to the slang word "dude," meaning a guy, you get dudette, a girl.

I have heard women address each other as "dude": "Hey, dude, wassup?" The -ette ending seems to be used when one wants to emphasize the femininity of the term in a humorous way.

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