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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Dutch/dʌtʃ/
▶adjective relating to the Netherlands, its people, or their language. ▶noun the West Germanic language of the Netherlands.
– phrases
go Dutch share the cost of a meal equally.
go Dutch share the cost of a meal equally.
– origin from MDu. dutsch ‘Dutch, Netherlandish, German’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dutch/dʌtʃ/
▶noun (usu. one's old dutch) Brit. informal (especially among cockneys) one's wife.
'Dutch' also found in these Oxford entries:
Afrikaans
- Afrikaner
- Arminian
- Batavian
- Boer
- burgher
- burgomaster
- cap
- Cape Dutch
- crop
- debye
- delft
- deutzia
- Dfl
- dogger
- double Dutch
- dutch
- Dutch auction
- Dutch barn
- Dutch cap
- Dutch courage
- Dutch door
- Dutch elm disease
- Dutch hoe
- dutchie
- Dutch metal
- Dutch oven
- Dutch uncle
- Edam
- FitzGerald contraction
- Flemish
- florin
- galliot
- genever
- Germanic
- Gouda
- Graafian follicle
- hollandaise sauce
- Hollands
- Hottentot
- Jacobson's organ
- keeshond
- knickerbocker
- lindane
- Lorentz force
- Mata Hari
- Middle Dutch
- Old Low German
- Pennsylvania Dutch
