释义 |
Dutchify, v.|ˈdʌtʃɪfaɪ| [f. Dutch a. + -fy.] trans. To make Dutch; to render Dutch-like.
1680Hon. Cavalier 13 So much Dutchified, as to understand the Phrase Hogan-Mogan. 1774J. Q. Adams Diary 11 Sept. Wks. II. 379 We..heard..a Dutchified English prayer and preachment. 1811Coleridge Lect. Shaks. ix. (1856) 115 In modern poems, where all is so dutchified, if I may use the word, by the most minute touches, that the reader naturally asks why words, and not painting, are used. 1890Murray's Mag. Apr. 452 The admixture tends to Anglicize the Dutch rather than to Dutchify the English. |