Dutch
/dʌt͡ʃ/ noun C2- The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands. · The Dutch will vote on the matter next month.· In upstate New York, the Dutch continued to speak their language into the nineteenth century.
- Afrikaner people (Cape Dutch).
- The Pennsylvania Dutch people.
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I’ll have this house painted red, white, and blue next summer and see if that’ll make his Dutch nose turn up any higher.”
Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives.
In front of me was standing a small, dwarf-like man with a huge, bulbous head, who was jabbering excitedly in Dutch, waving two horrible hands which looked to me like brown sponges.
He said a few stern words in Dutch and my persecutor shrank away.
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