| 单词 | double dutch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdouble Dutch double Dutch adv. and n. (also with lower-case initial in the second element) North American (a) adv. (of rope-skipping) over two ropes turned in sequence; (b) n. a rope-skipping game in which two ropes are used; cf. sense B. 2b. ΚΠ 1895 Harper's Mag. Feb. 421/2 He skipped ‘slow-poker’, ‘pepper-salt’, and ‘double Dutch’ in Tompkins Square on Saturdays. 1947 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 60 31 ‘Double Dutch’, where two ropes were used and turned inwardly by two girls, each of whom held a rope in each hand. 1988 S. Lee Do the Right Thing (film script, 2nd draft) in S. Lee & L. Jones Do the Right Thing (1989) 189 (stage direct.) The streets are filled with kids playing. We see stoop ball, double dutch. 2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul ii. viii. 135 The ladies jumping double-dutch..easily fall into step with the same culturally distinct rhymes from girlhood, skipping through the synchronized swinging ropes. double Dutch b. double Dutch: a language that one does not understand, gibberish. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] jargon1340 gibberishc1557 fustiana1593 hibber-gibber1593 rabble?1593 gabbling1599 rantum-scantum1599 ribble-rabble1601 gabble1602 High Dutch1602 Greek1603 baragouin1614 galimatias1653 riddle-me-ree1678 clink-clank1679 Hebrew1705 alieniloquy1727 jabber1735 mumbo-jumbo1738 gibbering1786 rigmarole1809 gibber1832 rigmarolery1833 Babelism1834 jargoning1837 barrikin1851 abracadabra1867 double Dutch1876 jabberwock1902 jabberwocky1908 jibber-jabber1922 mumbo-jumbery1923 mumbo1931 double-talk1938 garbology1944 1876 C. H. Wall tr. Molière Lovers' Quarrels ii. vii, in Dramat. Wks. I. 116 Though I have said them [sc. prayers] daily now these fifty years, they are still double Dutch to me. 1879 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXV. 297 The preacher preaches double Dutch or Greek, or something of the sort. < as lemmas |
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