Dutchmann.

Brit.

/ˈdʌtʃmən/, U.S.

/ˈdətʃmən/

Etymology: < Dutch adj. + man n.¹

†a. A German; a man of Teutonic race. Obsolete exc. locally in U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun]

Almainc1330

Dutchmana1387

Germana1387

High Dutchmana1450

Hans1569

Muff1585

Teutonic1638

Herr1653

Dutcher1671

mein Herr1796

Teuton1833

Dutchy1834

sour-crout1841

Fritz1887

sausage1890

Heinie1904

Boche1914

Fritzie1915

Hun1915

Jerry1916

sauerkraut-eater1918

sausage-eater1918

sale Boche1919

Volksdeutsche1937

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 253 Þe woodnesse of Duchesmen [L. furorem Teutonicorum].

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxx. 80 Be it duysshe man or lumbard or ony other nacion.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 Dutchman, Teutonicus.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 31 To be a Dutch-man to day, a French-man to morrow.

c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 90 3 men and 1 woman, all Duchemen borne.

1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A Duchman or German. Vi[de] German.

1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 7 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 404 This is a good house, kept by a Dutchman [in Pennsylvania].

1807 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 10 Mar. 75 I think they call him German, though he is not a Dutchman.

1841 W. G. Simms Scout (1882) xxi. 234 The dull, drowsy, beef-eyed Dutchmen..the Hessian boobies.

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master vii. 74 The robbery at ‘the Dutchman's’ (as the only German in the whole region was called).

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 38 Germans of all kinds are ‘Dutchmen’, ‘square-heads’ or ‘Heines’.

b. A European; a foreigner (see quots.). colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [noun]

Roumia1576

European1578

Feringhee1634

topi-wallah1826

continental1828

continentalist1834

Dutchman1857

Atlanticist1885

roundeye1955

mainland European1975

Euro1980

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > stranger or outsider > from another country

outlandishOE

WelshmanlOE

outlandish manc1300

foreign?a1400

strangerc1460

foreigner1483

outborna1557

tramontane1593

transmarine1596

outlander1598

outlandisher1599

exotic1651

Outalian1668

furriner1849

Dutchman1857

Uitlander1892

Johnny Foreigner1899

non-patrial1971

1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 311 Europeans..save French, English, and ‘Eyetalians’ are in California classed under the general denomination of Dutchmen, or more frequently ‘d—d Dutchmen’, merely for the sake of euphony.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 194 In sea-lingo (Pacific) Dutchman includes all Teutons and folk from the basin of the Baltic.

1907 Daily Chron. 21 Dec. 6/6 ‘Only fifty years ago,’ he remarked, ‘we gave the generic name of Dutchman to all the representatives of Western civilisation in the Far East.’

1910 G. C. Eggleston Recoll. 3 To us in the West, at least, all foreigners whose mother tongue was other than English were ‘Dutchmen’.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Dutchman, the British seafarers' name for sailormen in general, natives of Northern Europe: Dutchmen proper, Danes, Swedes, Russians, Germans. Finns are excepted.

1928 Daily Express 20 July 2/7 British sailors refer to foreigners employed on vessels as ‘Dutchmen’.

a. An inhabitant of Holland or the Netherlands.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of the Low Countries > [noun] > the Dutch > native or inhabitant of Holland

Hollandera1549

Netherlander1555

Hans1569

Low Dutchman1576

butterbox1595

Dutchman1596

Statesman1603

hogan1649

frog1652

hogen mogen1652

Froglander1673

sooterkin1680

mynheer1701

Dutcher1818

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E2 In Netherland, Among those euer-bibbing Epicures: Those frothy Dutch men, puft with double beere.

1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A Duchman, or one of the Low Countries.

1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 66 A Gill of Brandy (the best thing in the World to inspire Courage into a Dutch-man).

1873 F. C. Burnand My Time i Uncle Van Clym was a Dutchman.

1897 N.E.D. at Dutchman Mod. Is he a German or a Dutchman?

b. I'm a Dutchman, i.e. some one that I am not at all: as the alternative or consequent clause to an assertion or questioned hypothesis. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [phrase]

at the reverence of God1414

aye1576

that's flat1598

or my name is not ——1803

my eye1826

I'm a Dutchman1843

1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iii, in Fraser's Mag. May 606/2 If there's a better dressed man in Europe..I'm a Dutchman.

1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. xxxii. 330 If there is as much gold on the ground of New South Wales as will make me a wedding-ring, I am a Dutchman.

1897 N.E.D. at Dutchman Mod. It is my brother, or I'm a Dutchman.

a. A Dutch ship.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > Dutch

Rotterdammer1619

Dutchman1657

Hollander1708

butterbox1929

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 19 There was a Dutchman that lay there but three daies, and in that little stay, lost two Anchors.

1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe Ded. They..give it no more quarter, than a Dutch-man would to an English Vessel in the Indies.

b. Flying Dutchman n. (a) A legendary spectral ship supposed to be seen in the region of the Cape of Good Hope; also, the captain of this ship, said to have been condemned to sail the seas for ever; (b) applied to a particular express train on the Great Western Railway running between London and Bristol.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific

Flying Dutchman1813

Scotsman1871

Flying Scotchman1872

Orient Express1883

Twentieth Century1902

Royal Scot1927

Rheingold1928

Red Arrow1934

trans-Siberian1939

TEE1963

1813 W. Scott Rokeby Notes p. xxxiii A fantastic vessel, called by sailors The Flying Dutchman.

1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. ix. 191 I fear no Flying Dutchman.

1870 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. 25 The Flying Dutchman from Paddington.

4. In technical applications (see quots.). Chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > prop

stipera1000

prop1440

shorec1440

lega1475

stut1559

spurn1620

stilt1633

Dutchman1859

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Dutchman, a flaw in a stone or marble slab, filled up by an insertion.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dutchman (Carpentry), a playful name for a block or wedge of wood driven into a gap to hide the fault in a badly made joint.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dutchman, a short stick placed transversely between the outer logs of a load to divert the load toward the middle and so keep any logs from falling off.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Dutchman, a layer of suet fastened with skewers into a roast of lean beef or mutton.

1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 64 Dutchman, a prop used in logging for such purposes as preventing the binding of a saw when crosscutting, or for supporting the coupling of an arch while it is being hooked to a tractor.

1960 New Yorker 3 Sept. 20/3 He mended the [marble] lion by cutting recesses several inches deep wherever the stone was damaged, and fitting new pieces of stone therein. These pieces are known in the trade as dutchmen.

Compounds

Dutchman's breeches n. (a) a name in U.S. of the plant Dicentra Cucullaria; (b) Nautical (see quot. 1867).

ΚΠ

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 400/1 Dicentra Cucullaria, is known in the United States as Dutchman's Breeches, from the shape of the spurred flower.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dutchman's breeches, the patch of blue sky often seen when a gale is breaking, is said to be, however small, ‘enough to make a pair of breeches for a Dutchman’.

Dutchman's laudanum n. a climbing shrub allied to the passion-flower, Passiflora Murucuja ( Murucuja ocellata); also, a narcotic prepared from this.

ΚΠ

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 328 The Bull-hoof, or Dutchman's Laudanum..a climber; whose fruit is..about the size of a large olive.

Dutchman's pipe n. (a) ‘an American name for Aristolochia Sipho’ ( Treasury Bot. 1866); (b) the nest of the South American wasp.

ΚΠ

1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 315 Dutchman's Pipe, Aristolochia Hirsuta.

1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xxiii. 421 The South American wasp, which makes the nest popularly called the ‘Dutchman's pipe’.

Derivatives

Dutchman-like adj.

ΚΠ

1612 W. Sclater Christians Strength 5 That same vnmeasurable and Dutchmanlike drinking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dutchman
释义	Dutchmann. Brit. /ˈdʌtʃmən/, U.S. /ˈdətʃmən/ Etymology: < Dutch adj. + man n.¹ 1. †a. A German; a man of Teutonic race. Obsolete exc. locally in U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] Almainc1330 Dutchmana1387 Germana1387 High Dutchmana1450 Hans1569 Muff1585 Teutonic1638 Herr1653 Dutcher1671 mein Herr1796 Teuton1833 Dutchy1834 sour-crout1841 Fritz1887 sausage1890 Heinie1904 Boche1914 Fritzie1915 Hun1915 Jerry1916 sauerkraut-eater1918 sausage-eater1918 sale Boche1919 Volksdeutsche1937 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 253 Þe woodnesse of Duchesmen [L. furorem Teutonicorum]. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxx. 80 Be it duysshe man or lumbard or ony other nacion. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 Dutchman, Teutonicus. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 31 To be a Dutch-man to day, a French-man to morrow. View more context for this quotation c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 90 3 men and 1 woman, all Duchemen borne. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A Duchman or German. Vi[de] German. 1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 7 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 404 This is a good house, kept by a Dutchman [in Pennsylvania]. 1807 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 10 Mar. 75 I think they call him German, though he is not a Dutchman. 1841 W. G. Simms Scout (1882) xxi. 234 The dull, drowsy, beef-eyed Dutchmen..the Hessian boobies. 1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master vii. 74 The robbery at ‘the Dutchman's’ (as the only German in the whole region was called). 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 38 Germans of all kinds are ‘Dutchmen’, ‘square-heads’ or ‘Heines’. b. A European; a foreigner (see quots.). colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [noun] Roumia1576 European1578 Feringhee1634 topi-wallah1826 continental1828 continentalist1834 Dutchman1857 Atlanticist1885 roundeye1955 mainland European1975 Euro1980 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > stranger or outsider > from another country outlandishOE WelshmanlOE outlandish manc1300 foreign?a1400 strangerc1460 foreigner1483 outborna1557 tramontane1593 transmarine1596 outlander1598 outlandisher1599 exotic1651 Outalian1668 furriner1849 Dutchman1857 Uitlander1892 Johnny Foreigner1899 non-patrial1971 1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 311 Europeans..save French, English, and ‘Eyetalians’ are in California classed under the general denomination of Dutchmen, or more frequently ‘d—d Dutchmen’, merely for the sake of euphony. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 194 In sea-lingo (Pacific) Dutchman includes all Teutons and folk from the basin of the Baltic. 1907 Daily Chron. 21 Dec. 6/6 ‘Only fifty years ago,’ he remarked, ‘we gave the generic name of Dutchman to all the representatives of Western civilisation in the Far East.’ 1910 G. C. Eggleston Recoll. 3 To us in the West, at least, all foreigners whose mother tongue was other than English were ‘Dutchmen’. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Dutchman, the British seafarers' name for sailormen in general, natives of Northern Europe: Dutchmen proper, Danes, Swedes, Russians, Germans. Finns are excepted. 1928 Daily Express 20 July 2/7 British sailors refer to foreigners employed on vessels as ‘Dutchmen’. 2. a. An inhabitant of Holland or the Netherlands. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of the Low Countries > [noun] > the Dutch > native or inhabitant of Holland Hollandera1549 Netherlander1555 Hans1569 Low Dutchman1576 butterbox1595 Dutchman1596 Statesman1603 hogan1649 frog1652 hogen mogen1652 Froglander1673 sooterkin1680 mynheer1701 Dutcher1818 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E2 In Netherland, Among those euer-bibbing Epicures: Those frothy Dutch men, puft with double beere. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A Duchman, or one of the Low Countries. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 66 A Gill of Brandy (the best thing in the World to inspire Courage into a Dutch-man). 1873 F. C. Burnand My Time i Uncle Van Clym was a Dutchman. 1897 N.E.D. at Dutchman Mod. Is he a German or a Dutchman? b. I'm a Dutchman, i.e. some one that I am not at all: as the alternative or consequent clause to an assertion or questioned hypothesis. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [phrase] at the reverence of God1414 aye1576 that's flat1598 or my name is not ——1803 my eye1826 I'm a Dutchman1843 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iii, in Fraser's Mag. May 606/2 If there's a better dressed man in Europe..I'm a Dutchman. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. xxxii. 330 If there is as much gold on the ground of New South Wales as will make me a wedding-ring, I am a Dutchman. 1897 N.E.D. at Dutchman Mod. It is my brother, or I'm a Dutchman. 3. a. A Dutch ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > Dutch Rotterdammer1619 Dutchman1657 Hollander1708 butterbox1929 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 19 There was a Dutchman that lay there but three daies, and in that little stay, lost two Anchors. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe Ded. They..give it no more quarter, than a Dutch-man would to an English Vessel in the Indies. b. Flying Dutchman n. (a) A legendary spectral ship supposed to be seen in the region of the Cape of Good Hope; also, the captain of this ship, said to have been condemned to sail the seas for ever; (b) applied to a particular express train on the Great Western Railway running between London and Bristol. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific Flying Dutchman1813 Scotsman1871 Flying Scotchman1872 Orient Express1883 Twentieth Century1902 Royal Scot1927 Rheingold1928 Red Arrow1934 trans-Siberian1939 TEE1963 1813 W. Scott Rokeby Notes p. xxxiii A fantastic vessel, called by sailors The Flying Dutchman. 1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. ix. 191 I fear no Flying Dutchman. 1870 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. 25 The Flying Dutchman from Paddington. 4. In technical applications (see quots.). Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > prop stipera1000 prop1440 shorec1440 lega1475 stut1559 spurn1620 stilt1633 Dutchman1859 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Dutchman, a flaw in a stone or marble slab, filled up by an insertion. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dutchman (Carpentry), a playful name for a block or wedge of wood driven into a gap to hide the fault in a badly made joint. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dutchman, a short stick placed transversely between the outer logs of a load to divert the load toward the middle and so keep any logs from falling off. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Dutchman, a layer of suet fastened with skewers into a roast of lean beef or mutton. 1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 64 Dutchman, a prop used in logging for such purposes as preventing the binding of a saw when crosscutting, or for supporting the coupling of an arch while it is being hooked to a tractor. 1960 New Yorker 3 Sept. 20/3 He mended the [marble] lion by cutting recesses several inches deep wherever the stone was damaged, and fitting new pieces of stone therein. These pieces are known in the trade as dutchmen. Compounds Dutchman's breeches n. (a) a name in U.S. of the plant Dicentra Cucullaria; (b) Nautical (see quot. 1867). ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 400/1 Dicentra Cucullaria, is known in the United States as Dutchman's Breeches, from the shape of the spurred flower. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dutchman's breeches, the patch of blue sky often seen when a gale is breaking, is said to be, however small, ‘enough to make a pair of breeches for a Dutchman’. Dutchman's laudanum n. a climbing shrub allied to the passion-flower, Passiflora Murucuja ( Murucuja ocellata); also, a narcotic prepared from this. ΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 328 The Bull-hoof, or Dutchman's Laudanum..a climber; whose fruit is..about the size of a large olive. Dutchman's pipe n. (a) ‘an American name for Aristolochia Sipho’ ( Treasury Bot. 1866); (b) the nest of the South American wasp. ΚΠ 1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 315 Dutchman's Pipe, Aristolochia Hirsuta. 1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xxiii. 421 The South American wasp, which makes the nest popularly called the ‘Dutchman's pipe’. Derivatives Dutchman-like adj. ΚΠ 1612 W. Sclater Christians Strength 5 That same vnmeasurable and Dutchmanlike drinking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387
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