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Dutch (duc̸h)

adjective

  1. of the Netherlands or its people, language, or culture
  2. ☆ of the Pennsylvania Dutch or their language or culture

Etymology: ME Duch < MDu Duutsch, Dutch, German, akin to Ger Deutsch: see Deutschland

noun

the West Germanic language spoken in the Netherlands
Dutch Idioms

go Dutch

☆
Informal to have every participant pay his or her own expenses

in Dutch

☆
Informal in trouble or disfavor

the Dutch

  1. the people of the Netherlands
  2. ☆ the Pennsylvania Dutch

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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