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Double dutch

//dʌb.əl ˈdʌtʃ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Incomprehensible language or speech. uncountable

    "“Tell him I don’t know what he’s talking about. It’s double Dutch to me.”"

  2. 2
    the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners wordnet
  3. 3
    A language game akin to pig Latin. uncountable
  4. 4
    an incomprehensible talk wordnet
  5. 5
    A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers. uncountable
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  1. 6
    Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time. colloquial, uncountable

Etymology

From double (“twice, i.e. more than”) + Dutch. For sense 1: Dutch (which historically had a wider meaning) as a foreign language was not easily understood, so anything completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. Sense 2 expands on this meaning.

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