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'.
- strong interaction
- strongish
- strong joint
- strongle
- strong-like
- strongly
- strongman
- strong man's weed
- strong meat
- strong-minded
- strong-mindedness
- strongness
- strong on
- strongpoint
- strongroom
- strong safety
- strong side
- strong silent man
- strong silent type
- strong-smelling
- strong stress
- strong suit
- strong water
- strong-willed
- Strong, William