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Dutchman

noun
/ˈdʌt͡ʃmən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle Dutch duutschbor. Old Saxon thiudisk Middle Low German dütschbor. Middle English Duch Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English Ducheman English Dutchman From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man.

  1. inherited from Ducheman

Definitions

  1. A Dutch man

    A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.

    • About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
    • The Dutchman hit his 33rd league goal of the calendar year to move him three behind Alan Shearer's record of 36.

  2. A man of Dutch descent.

  3. A male Pennsylvania German.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A male German.

      • […]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.

    2. A male white Afrikaner.

      • […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

    3. Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship.

    4. A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

      • President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].

    5. A piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as…

      A piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.

    6. A flaw or void repaired with such a piece.

    7. A cloth strip attached to a flat to conceal a joint.

    8. Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman (“a ghost ship”).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA