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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
High Dutch en · NOUN
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(archaic, uncountable) Double Dutch; nonsense.
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High Dutch en · PROPN
Meanings
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(US) Pennsylvania Dutch, particularly the Fancy Dutch.
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(South-Africa) The standard Dutch language, especially the literary Dutch language of the Netherlands, as contrasted with Cape Dutch or Afrikaans.
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(archaic) High German.
[H]is impatience increased, he swore in high Dutch, the noise of the wheels on his pavement saluted his ears, his vexation redoubled […].
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:The Emperor Charles V, made almoſt the ſame Obſervation, when he ſaid, That if he were to ſpeak to his Horſe, it ſhould be in High-Dutch.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Studious to Learn the Language, the Houyhnhnm His Master Assists in Teaching Him. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 188:
Forms
Antonyms
Low Dutch · Netherdutch
Relateds
Old High Dutch · Middle High Dutch