Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a striptease show or burlesque.

1935		in Amer. Mercury June 230: Nudie: nude show.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.

2. (also nuddy, nudey) attrib. use, pertaining to naked or semi-naked women.

1939		W. Winchell On Broadway 13 June [synd. col.] The nudey frolics at the [World’s] Fair have started firing the Eves. One joint there dropped 25.
1967		L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 287: Holding up a pin-up nudie photo.
1967		W. Murray Sweet Ride Introduction: Mouse, star of ‘nudie’ movies.
c.1973		J. Thompson ‘Sunrise at Midnight’ in Fireworks (1988) 144: The topless bars and the bottomless bars and the nudie bars.
1978		P. Theroux Picture Palace 314: The photography magazines which had printed the nudie shots.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 216: He was not the booze-swilling lech he had appeared to be at the nudie joint.
1998		A. Warner Sopranos 129: Catriona had these nuddy mags under her bed.
1999		Guardian Guide 22–28 May 19: High priestess of carnality and star of nudie flicks.
2000		B. Wiprud Sleep with the Fishes 23: The novelty pen had a pinup girl photo on the shaft [...] Folks at the counter craned necks to [...] glimpse the nudie pen.
2004		T. Winton ‘Long, Clear View’ in Turning (2005) 192: A battered foreign-language nudie magazine.
2012		T. Robinson ‘Saint of Gunners’ in Dirty Words [ebook] ‘[T]hat run down little nudie bar?’.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 65: He brought nudie pics [...] for Rock Hudson’s wife candidates.

3. a nude performer.

1951		W. Pegler 27 Dec. [synd. col.] Some of the worried little nudies [W&F].
1964		E. Wilson Earl Wilson’s N.Y. 53: These nude models lead much less exciting lives than the nudies in the girlie magazines.
1969		D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 10: The near nudie giggled.

4. a picture featuring naked or semi-naked flesh.

1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1970		Harper’s Mag. July 36: One imagines that for a certain percentage of the audience nudies are a harmless substitute for following women in the street.
1987		‘Joe Bob Briggs’ Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 59: Lucky Pierre (1962): The first comedy nudie, made in Chicago in four days with very ugly girls.