Dutchy adj.
1. typically German, esp. of recent immigrants who have yet to adapt to America and still retain their old-country crudities.
Letters (1893) 495: I was [...] copying out Grisebach’s manuscripts for the printer (for the printer won’t touch the Dutchy-looking thing) [DA]. | ||
in King’s Business 127: The faces are not ideal but Dutchy [DA]. | ||
Tough Guy [ebook] Billy Muhlen, the dutchie from the dutchie block on Thirty-Eighth Street. |
2. low-class, dowdy, slovenly [SE Dutch].
DN II:iii 139: dutchy, adj. 1. Slovenly; unkempt; the same as tacky. 2. Loud, of ill-matched colors. | ‘College Words and Phrases’ in||
DN IV:iii 214: Dutchy, slovenly. ‘Those little kids always look so Dutchy’. | ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in
3. typically Dutch.
Neon Wilderness (1986) 148: I kind of liked hearin’ him talk in that slow Dutchy way. |