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Dutch(4) (iou)

Dutch adjective & adverb. ME.

A. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or designating the Germanic people of the area of north and central Europe now largely comprising Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Low Countries, or of any part of this area; of, pertaining to, or designating the West Germanic language of this people or any of its dialects; Teutonic. Without specifying word (as High, Low). obsolete exc. Hist. ME.
spec. Of, pertaining to, or designating the people of the Netherlands (Holland) or their language (spoken also in what is now N. Belgium: cf. Flemish); native to or originating in the Netherlands; characteristic of or attributed (often casually, usu. derogatorily) to the people of the Netherlands. E17.
b. Of, pertaining to, or designating South Africans of Dutch descent; Afrikaans-speaking; of Afrikaans. S. Afr., derog. M18.
Of, pertaining to, or designating American immigrants from Germany or Americans of German descent, or the German language as spoken by them. Now spec. Pennsylvania Dutch. US. M18.
Phrases: As for DUTCH noun1.
Special collocations: Dutch act US slang = DUTCH noun1 5 (chiefly in do a Dutch act, do the Dutch act). Dutch auction: see AUCTION noun 1. Dutch bargain: concluded by drinking together. Dutch barn a roof, supported on poles, over hay etc. Dutch cap (a) a woman's lace cap with a triangular piece turned back on each side; (b) a contraceptive diaphragm. Dutch cheese a cheese from the Netherlands, characteristically spherical in shape. Dutch clover: see CLOVER noun. Dutch courage: see COURAGE noun 4. Dutch defence Chess a defence replying to the queen's pawn opening with a two-square move of the king's bishop's pawn. Dutch doll a jointed wooden doll. Dutch elm disease a destructive disease of elms (first found in the Netherlands) caused by infestation with the fungus Ceratocystis ulmi and spread by bark beetles. Dutch feast: at which the host gets drunk before the guests. Dutch hoe a hoe used with a pushing action. Dutch interior a painting of the interior of a Dutch room or house, by or in the style of Pieter de Hooch (1629-83). Dutch light a cold frame in which the glass is a single large pane. Dutch lunch: at which each person pays for his or her own share. Dutch metal an alloy of copper and zinc imitating gold leaf. Dutch nightingale: see NIGHTINGALE noun1 3. Dutch oven: see OVEN noun 2. Dutch pink a yellow lake pigment. Dutch reckoning slang faulty reckoning. Dutch roll Aeronautics a short-period lateral oscillation of an aircraft. Dutch rush the rough horsetail, Equisetum hyemale. Dutch tile a kind of glazed white tile painted with traditional Dutch motifs in blue or brown. Dutch treat a party, or outing, meal, etc., at which each person pays his or her own share of the expenses. Dutch uncle a well-disposed, authoritative person (talk to like a Dutch uncle, lecture with kindly severity). Dutch wife (a) a frame of cane etc. used for resting the limbs in bed; (b) an artificial sexual partner.
Comb.: Dutchland (a) [from German Deutschland] Germany; (b) rare the Netherlands.
b. adverb. In a Dutch Fashion. Now chiefly in go Dutch, pay for one's own share, share the expense, of Food, drink, Entertainment, etc. E17.
? Although some early uses refer to the area which is now the Netherlands, the restriction of Dutch to this (to the exclusion of Germany etc.) took place in the 17th cent. with the country's independence and increasing contact with Britain.
Dutcher noun (rare) one of the Dutch (see DUTCH noun1 4) L17-E19.
Dutchify verb trans. make Dutch, give a Dutch character to L17.
Dutchy noun (slang, derog.) a Dutchman, a German M19.

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