Dutch n.1
1. (US) the German language.
 | Polychronicon VI in Trevisa (trans.) ver. II Ch. 18 line 23: This worde adelyng is componed in Duche & in Saxon of adel, [...] ‘noble’. | |
| Sel. Works III 100: Wheþer it be tolde to him or wryten in Latyn, or in Englyssche, or in Frensche or Duchyssche. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | A Novella V i: Hee could not weare those Cloaths and speake no Dutch else. | |
| Crim.-Con. Gaz. 24 Nov. 106/3: ‘You know the child will disover all when it begins to speak Dutch’. | |
| Vanity Fair III 211: Georgy made prodigious advance in the knowledge of High Dutch. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Breitmann in Kansas’ Hans Breitmann’s Party 22: For efery vordt der crisly growled / Vas goot Bavarian Dutch. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 9 Dec. 3/2: Janauschek [...] is firing at the boys in the Bowery in red hot invective of mixed Dutch and English. | |
| More Ex-Tank Tales 93: Doppelganger is fish-market Dutch for double. | |
| (con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 21: I’ll get another hour of this Dutch while you’re stealing the ten from him. | |
| Scarlet Pansy 307: There she had as a child picked up ‘Pennsylvanian dutch’. | |
| ‘Souvenir’ in Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) 93: Let’s hear you sprecken some Dutch to this man here. |
2. (US) a German.
| Major Downing (1834) 119: There’s the Dutch trying to eat up Holland, and the Belgiums are trying to eat up the Dutch. | |
| N.Y. Clipper 30 July 2/4: Sour Krout.—Talk as we may abou the Dutch, they are the most persevering people among us. | |
| ‘A Mayoralty Election’ 🌐 Don’t go for Coffinberry. He’s down on all the Dutch, and swears he’ll have all their heads chopped off and run into sausages if he’s elected. | |
| ‘Breitmann at a Picnic’ Hans Breitmann in Europe 283: De Dootch vas all gone roarin mad, / Und trinked mit Spraker all dey had. | |
| Mr Dooley in Peace and War 214: ‘Th’ Dutch is with us,’ he says. ‘I mane the Germans is our frinds.’. | |
| You Should Worry cap. 7: The old Dutch had her eye on Herman Schulz, and finally married him. | |
| letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 85: A few of the ‘Dutch’ got away by beating it across the fields. | |
| Reporter 325: The old dutch peers through his glasses. ‘Dot? Dot’s his vife!’. | |
| Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 156: Dutch, Dutchman, Dutchie Anyone from the Netherlands, Germany, or other countries speaking German and German dialects. |
3. (also Dutchie) a nickname for a German.
| Wkly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI) 25 May 2/3: ‘Dutch Henry’ was a thief and a murder. | |
| Good of the Wicked 17: ‘Italian’ Joe, ‘Dutch’ Oscar, and ‘Sheeney’ Ike, a cosmopolitan trio of shoe-string gamblers. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun. Times (Perth) 2 Sept. 4/7: I have met Bosun Bill, Mr. Ernie Locke, Doctor Boardman, Dutchy Perlstein. | |
| ‘Loosening Up of Hogan’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 156: Dutch Orendorff feared they would all be thrown into the street. | |
| Man’s Grim Justice 124: ‘Dutch’ and I did the blasting. | |
| Gas-House McGinty 195: You like it best on a rainy mornin’, huh, Dutch? [...] You’re damn right, said Heinie. | |
| McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 127: He says he has been called Dutch for as long as he can remember, but that he doesn’t know whether his parents came from Germany or Holland. | |
| I, Mobster 46: The wops were having trouble with a squarehead who called himself Dutch Schultz. |
4. (Aus., also Dutchie) a Central European.
| Observer 28 Aug. 8/5: The Australian knows only one name for central Europeans [...] and that name is: Dutchie. |
5. (US drugs) constr. with the, a marijuana cigarette rolled with the wrapping of a Dutch Master cigar.
| ‘Hate Bein’ Sober’ 🎵 My bitches love drinking, some love smoking / Let my alcoholic bitch hit the dutch, she start choking. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to remove one’s possessions (and oneself) from a rented apartment or house without paying one’s rent.
| press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 111/2: The Spitkinses did a Dutch with all their stock just before quarter-day. |
(US) in trouble, out of favour .
| in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 48: Looks to us as the Kaiser was ‘in Dutch’. | |
| ‘Our Theatrical Boarding House’ in L.A. Herald 10 Dec. 10/4: ‘Believe a old pal, Imogen, they’s some places where but one of yer slams would put yuh in awful Dutch, but I’m one who kin an’ does make allowances’. | |
| Torchy, Private Sec. 209: Listened like you was in Dutch for a minute or so there. | |
| ‘If a Party Meet a Party’ Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 96: Ed had told her that he came to pound the suburban flagstones because he was in Dutch at headquarters. | |
| Born to Be (1975) 116: Intuition told me I was in dutch. | |
| Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 92: I’m in dutch all right. | |
| ‘Lunching at the Ritzmore’ Coll. Stories (1990) 19: If they refuse to serve me, they might get in dutch with you. | |
| Peyton Place (1959) 141: ‘A girl in trouble.’ ‘She’s got in Dutch.’ ‘She’s knocked up.’. | |
| There Must Be a Pony! 237: I’d really be in Dutch if I got everybody excited. | |
| Dear ‘Herm’ 154: For G---sake don’t even drop 1 word about this to Flo [...] I will get in terribel Duch – and be up the creek, with no paddel. | |
| It (1987) 348: Stan was in dutch with his folks for breaking their picture window. | |
| I, Fatty 178: What could she say that would possibly put me in Dutch? | |
| Split Decision [ebook] Who was I to get him in Dutch with Cardone over my problem? | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 83: ‘They’re [i.e. the police] in Dutch with the press, I have to say’. |