Dutchy n.
1. a German; a nickname for a German.
Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 77: Miss Alb--tini, alias Dutchy, alias Jones [...] She is Dutch by birth. | ||
Winter in West II 165: Where’s Yankee and Dutchee? [DA]. | ||
‘Sut Lovingood at Bull’s Gap’ in Inge (1967) 148: Dutchy then axed fur lager bier. | ||
Cudjo’s Cave 39: See here, Dutchy! ye hain’t been foolin’ us, have ye? | ||
Life on the Mississippi (1914) 479: Dutchy belonged to our Sunday-school. He was a German lad. | ||
St Paul (MN) 22 Feb. 3/5: Hey, Dutchy, you’ll bust de glass. | ||
Kipling Captains Courageous cap.1: 🌐 Otto went overboard—an’ he was only a Dutchy, an’ twenty year old at that. | ||
Dumont’s Joke Book 96: The Irishman said, ‘Dutchy, I’ll give you a fair chance to see who gets this meat.’. | ||
Gem 16 Mar. 5: It’s only Dutchy the Swede, and he can barely understand English. | ||
Lone Hand (Sydney) July 276/2: When Gottlieb informed the cook of his good fortune, Happy got quite huffy [...] ‘Do yer mean to sy you was agoin’ to charge me, Dutchy?’. | ||
Wretches of Povertyville 147: ‘Dutchy,’ who has been kicked out of every saloon where a lunch counter is near the door, shows on his face the scars inflicted by the German University Schlager. | ||
In the Foreign Legion 51: ‘I’m going to call you Dutchy. Now don’t object, because I’m going to call you Dutchy anyhow, see?’. | ||
Sport (Adelaide) 20 Dec. 7/2: Angie, the boxer, had turned up boxing, and taken up detective work [...] Not a bad game, Dutchy . | ||
Old Man Curry 206: That’s why I have Dutchy take him out on a country road. | ‘A Morning Workout’ in||
Wash. Times (DC) 13 July 26/1: Hey, Dutchy, don’t you know about that hyar dog? | ||
Anna Christie Act I: I’m wise to what’s in back of your nut, Dutchy. | ||
Missing Link 🌐 Ch. xiv: The tale of Dutchy Schmitz howling mad in the hotel, while a great, hairy, hideous jim-jam capered on the floor before him. | ||
Travels of Tramp-Royal 274: Dutchy was game as well as ready [...] for he knew languages other than Dutch and English. | ||
Nightmare Alley (1947) 27: Hi, Dutchy – wet enough for you? | ||
Tough Guy [ebook] Next Leader had led the 1-4-Alls on raids against the Dutchies on Thirty-Eighth. | ||
Gun in My Hand 60: In peace the civilians must have something to hate too. The Dutchies or the Pommies. | ||
Only a Short Walk 90: Was he a station cook known as Dutchy Walker? | ||
(con. 1940s–60s) ‘The Dying Harlot – I’ in Snatches and Lays 23: I’ve been stuffed by the Dutchies and Negroes. |
2. (also Dutchie) a Dutchman.
Boy’s Own Paper 3 June 563: The Dutchies [...] are slow, demure, but likewise sure. | ||
Road 117: All that I could do was my best with the broom. I would thrust it through the bars, train it on Dutchy’s chest, and wait. | ||
Truth (Melbourne) 31 Jan. 8/3: The arrest of a young Dutchman [...] hailing from Amsterdam [...] ‘I’m wating for the sisters come home,’ replied the Dutchy. | ||
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 20 Oct. 1/1: ‘You goot corned beef, hey?’ says Dutchy [...] ‘You got sourkrout, too, hey?’ Our honest Mynheer ordered up his dinner. | ||
Hairy Ape Act I: I’ll bet on Dutchy. | ||
Follow the Sun 105: ‘Hey Dutchy!’ Carruthers bellowed. | ||
Up the Cross 105: The other Dutchie leapt up and started to go to his china’s aid. | (con. 1959)||
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