dutch
Noun pluraldutches
Pluraldutches
- 1From or about the Netherlands, its people, or the language they speak.
We ate Dutch cheese at the picnic.
She married a Dutch man she met in college.
- 2The people of the Netherlands, or some groups whose families came from there.
The Dutch are famous for growing tulips.
Long ago, the Dutch built a town where New York City is now.
SimilarNetherlanders
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- 3The main language spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium, and Suriname.
She is learning Dutch before she moves to Amsterdam.
My grandmother still counts in Dutch.
- 4The Pennsylvania Dutch people, as a group.
Around Lancaster, many of the Dutch still live on family farms.
The Dutch of eastern Pennsylvania are known for their colorful barn signs.
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- 5To treat cocoa with a chemical wash that makes it darker and less bitter.
Many chocolate makers Dutch their cocoa so it tastes milder.
This cocoa was Dutched, so it is darker than the plain kind.
Similaralkalize
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- 7A rude, hurtful word used about Afrikaners and their way of life.
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- 8A rude, hurtful name for Afrikaner people as a group.
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- 9Having to do with Germans and related peoples of Europe, including the Dutch.
The old Dutch church in town still holds one service in German.
His Dutch grandparents came from a farm village in Germany.
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- 10German, the main language of an old empire that included Germany and Austria.
Travelers to Vienna in the days of the old empire learned a little Dutch to buy food and find a bed.
Long ago, the farmers of the German valleys spoke Dutch at home and heard Latin in church.
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- 11Careful with money, and not wasting it.
Grandpa was too Dutch to throw away a good jar.
She is so Dutch with money that she never eats out.
Oppositeextravagant, wasteful
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- 12Used instead of the real thing, and not as good.
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- 13A name for a man, usually a nickname for someone whose family is Dutch or German.
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Origins
From an old Germanic word meaning "of one's own people". In Middle English it could mean German as well as Dutch.
A short form of the word duchess.