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   [duhch]
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
2. pertaining to or designating the style of painting and subject matter developed in the Netherlands during the 17th century, chiefly characterized by the use of chiaroscuro, muted tones, naturalistic colors or forms, and of genre, landscape, or still-life subjects drawn from contemporary urban and rural life.
3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
4. Archaic. German; Teutonic.
–noun
5. the people of the Netherlands and their immediate descendants elsewhere, collectively.
6. Pennsylvania Dutch.
7. Also called Netherlandic. the Germanic language of the Netherlands and northern Belgium. Abbreviation: D Compare Flemish.
8. Obsolete. the German language.
—Idioms
9. go Dutch, to have each person pay his or her own expenses: a dinner where everyone goes Dutch. Also, go dutch.
10. in Dutch, in trouble or disfavor (with someone): in Dutch with the teacher for disturbing the class.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME Duch < MD duutsch Dutch, German(ic); c. OHG diutisc popular (language) (as opposed to learned Latin), trans. of L (lingua) vulgāris popular (language)
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Dutch     (dŭch)   
adj.  
    1. Of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture.
    2. Of or relating to the Dutch language.
    3. German.
    4. Of or relating to any of the Germanic peoples or languages.
  2. Archaic
    1. German.
    2. Of or relating to any of the Germanic peoples or languages.
  3. Of or relating to the Pennsylvania Dutch.
n.  
  1. (used with a pl. verb)
    1. The people of the Netherlands.
    2. Archaic A Germanic people.
    3. The Pennsylvania Dutch.
    4. The official West Germanic language of the Netherlands and one of the official languages of Belgium.
    5. Archaic One or more of the West Germanic languages of Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries.
    6. See Pennsylvania Dutch.
    1. The official West Germanic language of the Netherlands and one of the official languages of Belgium.
    2. Archaic One or more of the West Germanic languages of Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries.
    3. See Pennsylvania Dutch.
  3. Slang Anger or temper.

[Middle English Duch, German, Dutch, from Middle Dutch Dūtsch; see teutā- in Indo-European roots.]
Pennsylvania Dutch  
n.  
  1. (used with a pl. verb) The descendants of German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  2. The dialect of High German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Also called Dutch, Pennsylvania German.
  3. The style of folk art and decorative arts developed by the Pennsylvania Dutch.

[Alteration of German Deutsch, German; see Plattdeutsch.]
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Dutch\, a. [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. pe['o]d, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic.] Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.

Dutch auction. See under Auction.

Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk.

Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.

Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland.

Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]

Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] --Marryat.

Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open.

Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf.

Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant.

Dutch oven, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.

Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale.

Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (E. hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum.

Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.

Note: Dutch was formerly used for German.

Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains. --Fuller.

Dutch

Dutch\, n. 1. pl. The people of Holland; Dutchmen.

2. The language spoken in Holland.
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dutch

adjective
1.  of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture; "Dutch painting"; "Dutch painters" 

noun
1.  the people of the Netherlands; "the Dutch are famous for their tulips" 
2.  the West Germanic language of the Netherlands 
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c.1380, used first of Germans generally, after c.1600 of Hollanders, from M.Du. duutsch, from O.H.G. duit-isc, corresponding to O.E. þeodisc "belonging to the people," used especially of the common language of Germanic people, from þeod "people, race, nation," from P.Gmc. *theudo "popular, national" (see Teutonic), from PIE base *teuta- "people" (cf. O.Ir. tuoth "people," O.Lith. tauta "people," O.Prus. tauto "country," Oscan touto "community"). As a language name, first recorded as L. theodice, 786 C.E. in correspondence between Charlemagne's court and the Pope, in reference to a synodical conference in Mercia; thus it refers to Old English. First reference to the German language (as opposed to a Germanic one) is two years later. The sense was extended from the language to the people who spoke it (in Ger., Diutisklant, ancestor of Deutschland, was in use by 13c.). Sense narrowed to "of the Netherlands" in 17c., after they became a united, independent state and the focus of English attention and rivalry. In Holland, duitsch is used of the people of Germany. The M.E. sense survives in Pennsylvania Dutch, who immigrated from the Rhineland and Switzerland. Since 1608, Dutch (adj.) has been a "pejorative label pinned by English speakers on almost anything they regard as inferior, irregular, or contrary to 'normal' (i.e., their own) practice" [Rawson]. E.g. Dutch treat (1887), Dutch uncle (1838), etc. -- probably exceeded in such usage only by Indian and Irish -- reflecting first British commercial and military rivalry and later heavy Ger. immigration to U.S.
The Dutch themselves spoke English well enough to understand the unsavory connotations of the label and in 1934 Dutch officials were ordered by their government to stop using the term Dutch. Instead, they were to rewrite their sentences so as to employ the official The Netherlands. [Rawson]
Dutch elm disease (1927) so called because it was first discovered in Holland (caused by fungus Ceratocystis ulmi).
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In addition to the idioms beginning with Dutch, also see beat all (the Dutch); double Dutch; in Dutch.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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