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单词 dutchman
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Dutchmann.

Brit. /ˈdʌtʃmən/, U.S. /ˈdətʃmən/
Etymology: < Dutch adj. + man n.1
1.
a. A German; a man of Teutonic race. Obsolete exc. locally in U.S.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun]
Almainc1330
Dutchmana1387
Germana1387
High Dutchmana1450
Hans1569
Muff1585
Teutonic1638
Herr1653
Dutcher1671
mein Herr1796
Teuton1833
Dutchy1834
sour-crout1841
Fritz1887
sausage1890
Heinie1904
Boche1914
Fritzie1915
Hun1915
Jerry1916
sauerkraut-eater1918
sausage-eater1918
sale Boche1919
Volksdeutsche1937
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 253 Þe woodnesse of Duchesmen [L. furorem Teutonicorum].
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxx. 80 Be it duysshe man or lumbard or ony other nacion.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 Dutchman, Teutonicus.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 31 To be a Dutch-man to day, a French-man to morrow. View more context for this quotation
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 90 3 men and 1 woman, all Duchemen borne.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A Duchman or German. Vi[de] German.
1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 7 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 404 This is a good house, kept by a Dutchman [in Pennsylvania].
1807 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 10 Mar. 75 I think they call him German, though he is not a Dutchman.
1841 W. G. Simms Scout (1882) xxi. 234 The dull, drowsy, beef-eyed Dutchmen..the Hessian boobies.
1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master vii. 74 The robbery at ‘the Dutchman's’ (as the only German in the whole region was called).
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 38 Germans of all kinds are ‘Dutchmen’, ‘square-heads’ or ‘Heines’.
b. A European; a foreigner (see quots.). colloquial.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [noun]
Roumia1576
European1578
Feringhee1634
topi-wallah1826
continental1828
continentalist1834
Dutchman1857
Atlanticist1885
roundeye1955
mainland European1975
Euro1980
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > stranger or outsider > from another country
outlandishOE
WelshmanlOE
outlandish manc1300
foreign?a1400
strangerc1460
foreigner1483
outborna1557
tramontane1593
transmarine1596
outlander1598
outlandisher1599
exotic1651
Outalian1668
furriner1849
Dutchman1857
Uitlander1892
Johnny Foreigner1899
non-patrial1971
1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 311 Europeans..save French, English, and ‘Eyetalians’ are in California classed under the general denomination of Dutchmen, or more frequently ‘d—d Dutchmen’, merely for the sake of euphony.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 194 In sea-lingo (Pacific) Dutchman includes all Teutons and folk from the basin of the Baltic.
1907 Daily Chron. 21 Dec. 6/6 ‘Only fifty years ago,’ he remarked, ‘we gave the generic name of Dutchman to all the representatives of Western civilisation in the Far East.’
1910 G. C. Eggleston Recoll. 3 To us in the West, at least, all foreigners whose mother tongue was other than English were ‘Dutchmen’.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Dutchman, the British seafarers' name for sailormen in general, natives of Northern Europe: Dutchmen proper, Danes, Swedes, Russians, Germans. Finns are excepted.
1928 Daily Express 20 July 2/7 British sailors refer to foreigners employed on vessels as ‘Dutchmen’.
2.
a. An inhabitant of Holland or the Netherlands.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of the Low Countries > [noun] > the Dutch > native or inhabitant of Holland
Hollandera1549
Netherlander1555
Hans1569
Low Dutchman1576
butterbox1595
Dutchman1596
Statesman1603
hogan1649
frog1652
hogen mogen1652
Froglander1673
sooterkin1680
mynheer1701
Dutcher1818
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E2 In Netherland, Among those euer-bibbing Epicures: Those frothy Dutch men, puft with double beere.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A Duchman, or one of the Low Countries.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 66 A Gill of Brandy (the best thing in the World to inspire Courage into a Dutch-man).
1873 F. C. Burnand My Time i Uncle Van Clym was a Dutchman.
1897 N.E.D. at Dutchman Mod. Is he a German or a Dutchman?
b. I'm a Dutchman, i.e. some one that I am not at all: as the alternative or consequent clause to an assertion or questioned hypothesis. colloquial.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [phrase]
at the reverence of God1414
aye1576
that's flat1598
or my name is not ——1803
my eye1826
I'm a Dutchman1843
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iii, in Fraser's Mag. May 606/2 If there's a better dressed man in Europe..I'm a Dutchman.
1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. xxxii. 330 If there is as much gold on the ground of New South Wales as will make me a wedding-ring, I am a Dutchman.
1897 N.E.D. at Dutchman Mod. It is my brother, or I'm a Dutchman.
3.
a. A Dutch ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > Dutch
Rotterdammer1619
Dutchman1657
Hollander1708
butterbox1929
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 19 There was a Dutchman that lay there but three daies, and in that little stay, lost two Anchors.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe Ded. They..give it no more quarter, than a Dutch-man would to an English Vessel in the Indies.
b. Flying Dutchman n. (a) A legendary spectral ship supposed to be seen in the region of the Cape of Good Hope; also, the captain of this ship, said to have been condemned to sail the seas for ever; (b) applied to a particular express train on the Great Western Railway running between London and Bristol.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific
Flying Dutchman1813
Scotsman1871
Flying Scotchman1872
Orient Express1883
Twentieth Century1902
Royal Scot1927
Rheingold1928
Red Arrow1934
trans-Siberian1939
TEE1963
1813 W. Scott Rokeby Notes p. xxxiii A fantastic vessel, called by sailors The Flying Dutchman.
1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. ix. 191 I fear no Flying Dutchman.
1870 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. 25 The Flying Dutchman from Paddington.
4. In technical applications (see quots.). Chiefly U.S.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > prop
stipera1000
prop1440
shorec1440
lega1475
stut1559
spurn1620
stilt1633
Dutchman1859
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Dutchman, a flaw in a stone or marble slab, filled up by an insertion.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dutchman (Carpentry), a playful name for a block or wedge of wood driven into a gap to hide the fault in a badly made joint.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dutchman, a short stick placed transversely between the outer logs of a load to divert the load toward the middle and so keep any logs from falling off.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Dutchman, a layer of suet fastened with skewers into a roast of lean beef or mutton.
1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 64 Dutchman, a prop used in logging for such purposes as preventing the binding of a saw when crosscutting, or for supporting the coupling of an arch while it is being hooked to a tractor.
1960 New Yorker 3 Sept. 20/3 He mended the [marble] lion by cutting recesses several inches deep wherever the stone was damaged, and fitting new pieces of stone therein. These pieces are known in the trade as dutchmen.

Compounds

Dutchman's breeches n. (a) a name in U.S. of the plant Dicentra Cucullaria; (b) Nautical (see quot. 1867).
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 400/1 Dicentra Cucullaria, is known in the United States as Dutchman's Breeches, from the shape of the spurred flower.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dutchman's breeches, the patch of blue sky often seen when a gale is breaking, is said to be, however small, ‘enough to make a pair of breeches for a Dutchman’.
Dutchman's laudanum n. a climbing shrub allied to the passion-flower, Passiflora Murucuja ( Murucuja ocellata); also, a narcotic prepared from this.
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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 328 The Bull-hoof, or Dutchman's Laudanum..a climber; whose fruit is..about the size of a large olive.
Dutchman's pipe n. (a) ‘an American name for Aristolochia Sipho’ ( Treasury Bot. 1866); (b) the nest of the South American wasp.
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1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 315 Dutchman's Pipe, Aristolochia Hirsuta.
1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xxiii. 421 The South American wasp, which makes the nest popularly called the ‘Dutchman's pipe’.

Derivatives

Dutchman-like adj.
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1612 W. Sclater Christians Strength 5 That same vnmeasurable and Dutchmanlike drinking.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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