Pennsylvania Dutch
/pɛnsɪlveɪniəˈdʌtʃ
/(also Pennsylvania German)
noun [mass noun]
A dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania, chiefly by descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants.The Amish speak English, German, and a dialect known as Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch....
- I quickly made a virus called Heevahava, the name being a Pennsylvania Dutch pejorative for a simpleton, colloquially - a farmhand given the job of harvesting sperm from a bull.
- By ‘smear-case’ he meant Smierkase, a Pennsylvania Dutch term.
Origin
Dutch from German Deutsch 'German'.
- pastophore
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- pastorage
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- pastoral charge
- pastoral company
- pastoral district
- pastorale
- Pastoral Epistle
- Pastoral Epistles
- pastoralia
- pastoralise
- pastoralism
- pastoralist
- pastorality
- pastoralization
- pastoralize
- pastoralized
- pastoral lease
- pastoral letter
- pastorally
- pastoralness