High dutch
name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Double Dutch; nonsense. archaic, uncountable
Proper Noun
- 1 Pennsylvania Dutch, particularly the Fancy Dutch. US
- 2 The standard Dutch language, especially the literary Dutch language of the Netherlands, as contrasted with Cape Dutch or Afrikaans. South-Africa
- 3 High German. archaic
"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."
Example
More examples"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."