Dutch adj.2
1. German.
![]() | Anatomy of Melancholy (1893) I 26: As a Dutch Host, if you come to an Inne in Germany, and dislike your fare, diet, lodging, &c. replies in a surly tone [...] if you like not this, get you to another Inne. | ‘Democritus to Reader’|
![]() | City Wit IV i: He has an English face, a French tongue, a Spanish heart [...] and a Dutch buttock. | |
![]() | A Novella IV ii: He takes him for the Dutch loggerhead / We saw to day in the Piazzo. | |
![]() | Laugh and Be Fat 91: The Judge’s lady [...] sent immediately for the Dutch Tooth-Drawer. | |
![]() | Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 77: Miss Alb--tini, alias Dutchy, alias Jones [...] She is Dutch by birth. | |
![]() | ‘The Dutch Fish-Monger’ in Jovial Songster 100: [title]. | |
![]() | Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 7: The Jew Phenomenon, DUTCH SAM. | |
![]() | ‘The Pugilistic Feats Of Jack Scroggins’ in Lummy Chaunter 57: The conqueror of Dutch Sam, then next he took in tow. | |
![]() | Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) Oct. 5 n.p.: A little diminutive looking monkey that answers by the name of Dutch Lewey. | |
![]() | Harry Lorrequer 151: I’d rather hear the ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’ or the ‘Jug of Punch,’ as my old friend Pat Samson could sing them, than a score of your high Dutch jawbreakers. | |
![]() | Moby Dick (1907) 306: ‘The unmannerly Dutch dogger!’ cried Stubb. | |
![]() | Box And Cox in Darkey Drama 6 7: I bort a lot of sassengers at the Dutch butcher’s. | |
![]() | Bushrangers 113: The fellow [...] uttered a deep growl [...] saying, – ‘Let me sleep, you Dutch hog.’ [...] ‘Don’t disturb him,’ pleaded the German. | |
![]() | letter 19 July in Splete (1988) 146: I think the Dutch Kaiser is a great man. | |
![]() | Dumont’s Joke Book 82: Wherever there was a crowd of Dutch voters I talked German to them. | |
![]() | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 12 June 1/6: They timed each race / [...] / By the music of a full blown German band / [...] / Those doughty Dutch musicians struck up a lively air. | |
![]() | Philosophy of Johnny the Gent 23: [T]he squawk of a first-past guy that gets trimmed again his own graft ’d make the music of a come-on’s belch sound like a opery overture played by a Dutch street band. | |
![]() | Strictly Business (1915) 255: Eddie McManus [...] drifted into Dutch Mike’s for a stein of beer. | ‘Past One at Rooney’s’ in|
![]() | Moods of Ginger Mick 25: I tells ’im wot I read about the ’Uns, / [...] / Sez ’e, ‘I’ll crack the first Dutch cow I meet!’. | ‘War’ in|
![]() | Main Stem 2: She ran a boarding house that served good German food [...] And, in truth, that Dutch lady’s dinners were A number one; they stuck to your ribs. | |
![]() | Runyon on Broadway (1954) 717: Willie calls him a dirty old Dutch bum. | ‘All Horse Players Die Broke’ in|
![]() | Reinhart in Love (1963) 121: ‘Obviously it’s the Maskerr,’ said Reinhart. ‘Well it ain’t the Verderber, which is Dutch for the opposite [...] As you well know, being Dutch as they come.’. |
2. (Aus.) Scandinavian.
![]() | Truth (Sydney) 23 Dec. 1/4: Dutch Tom, a giant Scandinavian. |