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Dutch Definition

Dutch (duc̸h)

adjective

  1. of the Netherlands or its people, language, or culture
  2. ☆ of the Pennsylvania Dutch or their language or culture

Etymology: ME Duch < MDu Duutsch, Dutch, German, akin to Ger Deutsch: see Deutschland

noun

the West Germanic language spoken in the Netherlands
Dutch Idioms

go Dutch

☆
Informal to have every participant pay his or her own expenses

in Dutch

☆
Informal in trouble or disfavor

the Dutch

  1. the people of the Netherlands
  2. ☆ the Pennsylvania Dutch
Dutch Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • go: I can imagine this useful for the College lot, all those students are always going dutch.

Adjective modifier

  • double: The fact that it was double dutch to the Police and was in fact a list of birds ( some of them protected species!
  • English: Some possible values are en: English dutch: Dutch.. .
  • little: I was doing well at the time and I was quite happy and so was my little dutch.

Modifies a noun

  • barge: Is a dutch barge suitable for mooring in a marina, or will I be needing a yacht of some sort?
  • elm: Written by RJ Jones and LF Grand, this fact sheet provides information on the fungal disease ' dutch elm disease ' .
  • courage: So get some dutch courage in the Kings Arms in Bowness, go to the WC next door and off you go.
  • barn: On the Isle of Jura, a dutch barn containing 120 tons of hay was set alight by a child playing with matches.
  • countryside: The dutch countryside in may of bass fishing in.
  • people: In fact we have got quite used to dutch people saying with great confidence " she is a Maurice Griffiths design " .
Dutch Quotes

The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.

—Johnson, Pauline

In matters of commerce The fault of the Dutch Is offering too little And asking too much.

—Canning, George

   And as the moon rose higher the unessential houses begantomelt awayuntilgradually Ibecameaware ofthe old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyesöa fresh, green breast of the new world† For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key