High dutch

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Pennsylvania Dutch, particularly the Fancy Dutch. US
  2. 2
    The standard Dutch language, especially the literary Dutch language of the Netherlands, as contrasted with Cape Dutch or Afrikaans. South-Africa
  3. 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."

Noun
  1. 1
    Double Dutch; nonsense. archaic, uncountable

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