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noun dʌtʃ usually one's old dutchBritish informal (especially among cockneys) one's wife. Example sentencesExamples - Particularly when I tell them me and the old dutch live in the old folks' flats, yes the upstairs one, and their nice young men will have to carry the dead fridge (six feet high, etc.) down the stairs first.
Synonyms spouse, husband, wife, consort, helpmate, helpmeet
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation of duchess. adjective dʌtʃ 1Relating to the Netherlands, its people, or their language. Example sentencesExamples - He became a master of Rangaku, the study of Western science by means of the Dutch language.
- The party was expected to make big gains in next week's Dutch elections.
- A similar census in the Netherlands was far more efficient, and many Dutch Jews were killed.
- The proposals themselves can be submitted only by Dutch companies, registered in the Netherlands.
- The dialect is the Amish native tongue and should not be confused with the Dutch language of the Netherlands.
- It was a good political move to insist that the courses were taught there in the Dutch language.
- Patients who queued around the block in Third World scenes to register with a Dutch dentist are no nearer getting treatment after her past was exposed.
- The Glasgow club is unlikely to win the final pool match against the impressively strong Dutch hosts and reigning European champions today.
- The Dutch language texts were primarily told by men and the type can be considered as masculine, which is of course also underlined by its content.
- But other voyaging Dutch painters did, and from them he learnt to paint soaring pines and tree-cracking torrents.
- Management at the pub, while expressing sympathy for the family of the dead man, directed all questions to the Dutch police.
- One was signed by a Dutch football fan from Rotterdam.
- Since then it's had various incarnations, culminating in a total restoration and enlargement by a Dutch couple in 1999.
- The deal was put together in the Netherlands by Dutch lawyers under Dutch law.
- Ethnic minorities who already lived in the country should learn the language and adapt to Dutch society.
- Denmark's refusal to grant a visa was echoed by Dutch government when the Netherlands was proposed as an alternate site.
- His parents sent him to a Dutch language class even though he speaks French at home.
- He has visited similar cafes in The Netherlands and wants to style his after the Dutch model.
- They gained the most power in the northern area, where early forms of the Dutch language took hold.
- He was one of the few Indonesians to attend a Dutch university in the Netherlands Indies.
2archaic Relating to the people of Germany; German.
noun dʌtʃ 1mass noun The language of the Netherlands, spoken by some 20 million people. Example sentencesExamples - The old and small generation of well-educated Indonesians who spoke Dutch is passing away.
- The site provides versions of itself in Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch as well as English.
- However, it also became very popular abroad and was translated into French, Dutch, and German.
- He also was the translator for many of the books he published, using his knowledge of French, Latin and Dutch.
- French is essentially an attempt by the Dutch to speak a Romance language.
- The voices you hear speak Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, French and English.
- Many of the French settlers also knew Dutch, and both languages appear in early official documents.
- Exports are going well, with games available in German, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic and Punjabi as well as English and French.
- The native language of Antwerp is Dutch, but most people also speak French, German and English.
- Soon, this section alone was widely circulated in Spanish, Latin, German, Dutch, French and English.
- He speaks six languages: Spanish, Italian, Dutch, English, French and Portuguese.
- Yiddishisms occur in such languages as Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, and Spanish.
- However, there are also traces of Celtic, Old French, Middle and High German, Dutch and even Romany.
- The backlash persuaded his father to take a job in Holland, where Malcolm spent the first five years of his life learning Dutch as his first language.
- And it's not limited to English - French, Dutch, Japanese, Welsh and others are covered too.
- Depending on the region, classes may be taught in either French, Dutch, or German.
- If you're worried about not speaking a word of Dutch, relax.
- The official language is Dutch, which is spoken little in daily life.
- The Flemish, those residing in Flanders, the northern half of the country, speak Dutch.
- The language spoken in Flanders is Dutch, which is commonly called Flemish.
Synonyms girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée 2as plural noun the DutchThe people of the Netherlands collectively. Example sentencesExamples - He was an Englishman committed to his nation's titanic economic struggle against the Dutch.
- The first decades of the seventeenth century witnessed the collapse of much of the Portuguese empire in the East, to be replaced by the Dutch.
- As British troops were withdrawn from the Netherlands, the Dutch and Austrians found themselves exposed to defeat.
- European expansion started with the Portuguese, followed by the Spanish and the Dutch.
- This is a perfect example of the differences in colonial rule between the British and the Dutch.
- During the 16th century the area was occupied by the Portuguese, the British, and the Dutch.
- An English trading post at Cormantine in west Africa was augmented by the seizure of Cape Coast Castle from the Dutch in 1664.
- The French and Spanish already call their ships masculine and the Dutch and Germans consider them neuter.
- The only people who actually meet that target are the Scandinavian countries and the Dutch.
- Spain and Greece have been popular summer holiday destinations for the Dutch for many years.
- Well Australia of course was known at least much of the western part to European eyes through the Dutch.
- The Dutch gave Canada 1 million tulips in gratitude for the friendship displayed in the war.
- The great slaving powers were the English, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch.
- The one point imposed by the Dutch on the Thais and greatly resented was the clause introducing extraterritoriality.
- Both the Dutch and Indonesians also sold things on the black market, like cigarettes, alcohol and clothes.
- The ceramics trade was very profitable for Asian and European traders, especially the Dutch.
- The result is a toleration of evil in Britain, which is now being shamed and exposed by comparison with the Dutch and Danes.
- But already, they have caught up with the Dutch in their freefall into the moral abyss.
- Whe then Spanish had conquered the Dutch for over 400 years they left their mark racially and culturally.
- Many of their children were later involved in the national struggle for independence against the Dutch.
Dutch belongs to the West Germanic branch of Indo-European languages and is most closely related to German and English. It is also the official language of Suriname and is spoken in northern Belgium, where it is called Flemish Phrases informal Share the cost of something, especially a meal, equally. Example sentencesExamples - She makes up for it by insisting on going Dutch on less formal occasions and making us dinner at her place fairly often.
- The net result, Germany, which was sailing with a 1-lead, had to accept the rival's credo: go Dutch!
- In effect, it would amount to going Dutch in a month.
- I mean, if you ever date one, go Dutch, or you'll be spending the rest of your life working off the debt.
- I've resolved that this government should go Dutch.
- Logically the following may be a good idea: a female job-loser and a male manager dine together and then they go Dutch.
- I'll pay for it, or we'll go Dutch, if that offends your sensitivities.
- Will Tottenham go Dutch with their summer transfer targets?
- Then again, he's probably terrified this will encourage other nice restaurants to adopt this practice, which means the end of going Dutch on dates.
- And more to the point, I'm very strict about going Dutch, so that's even more money.
Synonyms split, divide, go halves in, go halves with
dated, informal In trouble. he's been getting in Dutch at school
Origin From Middle Dutch dutsch 'Dutch, Netherlandish, German': the English word originally denoted speakers of both High and Low German, but became more specific after the United Provinces adopted the Low German of Holland as the national language on independence in 1579. From the Middle Ages up to the 17th century Dutch was not restricted to the people and language of the Netherlands, but referred to much of north and central Europe, taking in the peoples of modern Germany and the Low Countries. In 1579 the seven provinces that form the basis of the republic of the Netherlands gained independence and united, adopting the kind of German spoken in Holland as their national language. This change in the political landscape led to the more specific uses of Dutch in modern English. During the 17th century there was great rivalry between the English and the Dutch. The English attributed various undesirable characteristics to their neighbours, including Dutch courage, ‘strength or confidence gained from drinking alcohol’, which managed to imply that the Dutch were both cowards and drunkards. Their language was insulted in double Dutch, ‘gibberish’. In some phrases the Dutch appear to have been singled out simply because they are foreign, as in I'm a Dutchman, used to express disbelief. In the American expression Dutch uncle, ‘a kindly but authoritative figure’, the choice serves to emphasize that the person referred to is not a blood relation. The original wording was ‘I will talk to him like a Dutch uncle’, meaning ‘I will give him a lecture’. Another expression that was originally American is go Dutch, ‘to share the cost of something equally’, first recorded in 1914—the implication, more obvious in Dutch treat, was presumably that the Dutch were mean.
Rhymes clutch, crutch, hutch, inasmuch, insomuch, much, mutch, scutch, such, thrutch, touch |