Dutch
[dʌtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the West Germanic language of the Netherlands.
(noun.) the people of the Netherlands; 'the Dutch are famous for their tulips'.
(adj.) of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture; 'Dutch painting'; 'Dutch painters' .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) The people of Holland; Dutchmen.
(n.) The language spoken in Holland.
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Definition
adj. belonging to Holland or its people—in old writers rather applied to the Germans: heavy clumsy as in Dutch-built -buttocked &c.—n. Dutch′man a native of Holland.—Dutch auction courage tiles (see Auction Courage Tile); Dutch carpet a mixed material of cotton and wool for floor coverings; Dutch cheese a small round cheese made on the Continent from skim-milk; Dutch clinkers a hard brick for paving stables &c.; Dutch clover white clover; Dutch concert a concert in which singers sing their various songs simultaneously or each one sings a verse of any song he likes between bursts of some familiar chorus; Dutch drops a balsam or popular nostrum of oil of turpentine tincture of guaiacum &c.; Dutch liquid an oily substance obtained by mixing chlorine and olefiant gases—not miscible with water readily dissolving in ether and alcohol producing anéŽ thesia; Dutch metal sometimes called Dutch gold or Dutch leaf is an alloy of copper and zinc; Dutch oven (see Oven); Dutch pink (see Pink); Dutch rush the scouring-rush; Dutch wife an open frame of rattan or cane used in the Dutch Indies to rest the limbs upon in bed.—Talk like a Dutch uncle to rebuke with kindness.
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Examples
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The Dutch fleet, frozen in the Texel, surrendered to a handful of cavalry without firing its guns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is a curious fact that in the Edison family the pronunciation of the name has always been with the long e sound, as it would naturally be in the Dutch language. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He sat down again instantly, and asked for a little drop of comfort out of the Dutch bottle. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For he assured me, that if the secret should be discovered by my countrymen the Dutch, they would cut my throat in the voyage. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In Europe, if the French, who are white people, should injure the Dutch, are they to revenge it on the English, because they too are white people? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Next came two Dutch prints which Mr. Toller had been eager for, and after he had secured them he went away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But being neglected by Sweden, it was soon swallowed up by the Dutch colony of New York, which again, in 1674, fell under the dominion of the English. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Incidentally this would also have drowned most of the Dutch harvest and cattle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The southeastern fringe of it spoke French dialects; the bulk, Frisian, Dutch, and other Low German languages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the expression forlorn hope we have made the Dutch word hoop meaning a company into hope. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Bowling, as we know today, is an indoor adaptation of, and an improvement upon, the old Dutch game of nine-pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Dutch settlement here formed gradually grew into a town called New Amsterdam, which in 1648 had 1,000 inhabitants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be sometimes heard in Dutch clocks. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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