Dutch cap see under cap¹

Dutch carpet noun

A mixed material of cotton and wool for floor coverings

Dutch cheese noun

A small round cheese made in Europe from skimmed milk

Dutch clinker noun

A hard yellow brick for paving, etc

Dutch clock noun

A clock of wood and wire with brass wheels, made in the Black Forest

Dutch clover noun

White clover

Dutch comfort noun

‘Thank God it's no worse’

Dutch concert noun

A concert in which singers sing their various songs simultaneously, or each person sings a verse of any song of their choosing between bursts of some familiar chorus

Dutch courage see under courage

Dutch doll noun

A wooden doll with jointed legs

Dutch drops plural noun

A once popular medicine, composed of oil of turpentine, tincture of guaiacum, etc

Dutch elm disease noun

A fungal, usu fatal, disease of elm trees (in fact of Asian origin), spread by bark-beetles, causing a gradual withering

Dutch gold, Dutch leaf or Dutch metal noun

A copper-zinc alloy, a substitute for gold leaf

Dutch hoe noun

A hoe with blade attached as in a spade

Dutch liquid noun

Ethylene dichloride (C₂H₄Cl₂), an anaesthetic discovered by Dutch chemists

Dutch lunch or Dutch supper noun

One at which each person brings or pays for their own share

Dutchˈman, fem Dutchˈwoman noun

1. A native or citizen of the Netherlands
2. An Afrikaner (S Afr; derogatory)
3. A German or Teuton (US)

Dutchman's breeches plural noun

Dicentra

Dutchman's pipe noun

A species of Aristolochia

Dutch oven noun

1. A heavy covered cooking pot used by burying in coals
2. A heavy stewpot or casserole
3. A tin for roasting before an open fire

Dutch pink see pink⁵

Dutch rush noun

A horsetail (Equisetum hyemale) with much silica in its stem, used for polishing

Dutch tiles see under tile

Dutch treat noun

An occasion (eg a meal or an entertainment) when each person pays for himself or herself

Dutch uncle noun

Someone who criticizes or reprimands one unsparingly

Dutch wife noun

1. An open frame of rattan or cane used in the East Indies, to rest the limbs upon in bed
2. A bolster used for the same purpose

double Dutch

1. Any unknown or unintelligible language
2. A skipping game using two ropes

go Dutch (informal)

To pay each for himself or herself

High Dutch

1. See Dutch (n) above
2. Formerly, Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands as opposed to South African Dutch
3. Double Dutch (obsolete)

I'm a Dutchman

An expression used ironically to show disbelief and rejection of an earlier statement

Pennsylvania Dutch

The mixed German dialect of the descendants of German settlers in Pennsylvania

talk like a Dutch uncle

To utter a rebuke

cap¹ /kap/

1. A flat brimless hat, usu with a peak
2. Formerly, a woman's light head covering, usu worn indoors and made from lace, fine linen, etc
3. An official or symbolic headdress or one appropriated to a special class or use, academic, athletic, etc
4. An occasion of being selected for esp a national team, symbolized by a cap
5. A person so selected
6. The enamel which covers a tooth (anatomy)
7. An artificial covering for a tooth, replacing the natural enamel
8. A caplike covering of any kind
9. The top of a toadstool
10. The uppermost or terminal part of anything
11. A percussion cap for a toy gun, etc
12. A collection of money taken at a fox hunt (orig in a cap) for hunt servants, charity, etc
13. (also Dutch cap) a contraceptive diaphragm

1. To cover the end or top of
2. To touch with a cap in conferring a degree (chiefly Scot and NZ)
3. To select as a member of a team
4. To outdo or surpass by following with something better, more significant, etc
5. To seal off and halt the flow from (an oil or gas well)
6. To set a limit to (esp local authority budgets)

To salute by raising the cap

capˈful noun (pl capˈfuls)

cappˈer noun

cappˈing noun

1. The action of the verb cap
2. A covering, eg a hard crust that forms on soil during dry weather
3. A graduation ceremony (informal)

capˈ-case noun (obsolete)

A small travelling-case, a chest

capˈ-paper noun

1. A kind of wrapping paper
2. A size of writing paper

cap pistol noun

A toy gun using a percussion cap

cap rock noun

A stratum of (usu impervious) rock overlying oil- or gas-bearing strata

cap screw noun

A bolt with a threaded shaft and cylindrical head with a hexagonal indentation for turning it

cap sleeve noun

A short sleeve, just covering the shoulder

capˈstone noun

1. A coping-stone
2. The top or finishing stone of a structure
3. A stone slab laid flat over the top of a cist (archaeology)
4. The horizontal stone of a dolmen (archaeology)
5. A flat stone acting as a cap, eg to a shaft or chimney

black cap see under black

cap and bells

The insignia of a professional jester

cap and collar mortgage

One having a minimum (collar) and maximum (cap) rate of interest

cap in hand

1. Submissively
2. Supplicatingly

cap of liberty

The conical cap, usu made of red material, given to a Roman slave on enfranchisement, and adopted during the French revolution as an emblem of freedom, now the symbol of republicanism

cap of maintenance see under maintain

cap verses

To quote verses in turn, according to rule

college cap

A mortarboard or trencher cap

set one's cap at

(of a woman) to set oneself to captivate (a man)

the cap fits

The allusion is felt to apply

throw up one's cap

To make this gesture (lit or figurative) in token of immoderate joy

to cap it all

As a (frequently unpleasant) climax