High Dutchn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌhʌɪ ˈdʌtʃ/, U.S.

/ˌhaɪ ˈdətʃ/

Forms: see high adj. and n.² and Dutch adj., n.¹, and adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably partly modelled on a Dutch lexical item, probably partly modelled on a Middle Low German lexical item, and probably partly modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: high adj., Dutch n.¹; high adj., Dutch adj.

Etymology: As noun < high adj. + Dutch n.¹ As adjective < high adj. + Dutch adj. Probably at least in part after Dutch hoogduits, Middle Low German hōchdǖdesch, German hochdeutsch (see High German n.). Compare Middle French, French haut allemand (mid 16th cent. as noun, or earlier). Compare Low Dutch n. In sense A. 3 corresponding to Afrikaans Hooghollands.

Now chiefly historical.

A. n.

a. = High German n. 2. Cf. Low Dutch n. 1.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > German > varieties of

High Dutch1560

High German1652

Swabian?1743

Alsatian1826

Varangian1831

Pennsylvania Dutch1848

Viennese1849

Pennsylvania German1853

Frankish1863

Tyroler1887

Limburger1932

a1500 (a1451) in Ld. Clermont Wks. J. Fortescue (1869) I. 553 (MED) The Northe est Contrey..whiche lond spekyn all maner Duche tonge, hyer Dowche, and lower Duche.]

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries xxii. f. cccliij^v Maximilian..was a Prince of great towardnes, & could speake sondry languages, especially the highe dutche [L. Germanicam inprimis].

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxxi. 590 Called..in high Douche [Fr. en haut Aleman, Du. in Hoochduytsch], Melaunen: in base Almaigne, Meloenen: in Englishe, Melons.

1613 W. Shute tr. J. J. Orlers & H. van Haestens Triumphs of Nassau 5 Their antient speech is high Dutch [Fr. l'Allemand]: vpon the Frontiers of France they speak Wallon.

1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland ii. 87 In one half of the Countrey they preach in high Dutch, and in other half in a corrupt Italian, which they call Romanish.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 64 I spoke high Dutch.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 150 A chronicle of Nurenberg, in high Dutch, written in the year 1585.

1831 J. C. Prichard Eastern Origin Celtic Nations ii. 59 For water in English and Holland-Dutch and Platt-Deutsch, the High-Dutch has wasser.

1870 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 423/2 Still the native speech of all Southern Germany is High-Dutch.

1932 G. K. Chesterton in Illustr. London News 11 June 4/3 The notion of an Aryan Race uniting those who talked Sanskrit with those who talk High Dutch is not a reality.

2010 B. Bryson Seeing Further 4 He filed his reports in Low Dutch because he had no English and no Latin. He didn't even have High Dutch, it appears.

b. Language that a person cannot understand; = double Dutch at Dutch n.¹ 2b. Chiefly in to be (all) High Dutch to a person. Now rare.

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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

1602 W. Watson tr. E. Pasquier Iesuites Catech. i. ii. f. 5 I beseech you decyfer your doctrine that I may vnderstand it, for to say truth, this is high Dutch [Fr. le haut Allemand] to me.

1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Amorous Quarrel ii. vii. in Molière Wks. I. 245 My Father..never taught me any thing but my Mass-Book, which, though I have said it daily for fifty Years, is still High Dutch to me.

1790 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs I. 153 Why 'twas just all as one as high Dutch.

1834 London & Paris Observer 9 Mar. 137/1 That's all high Dutch to me, master; but I'll go on if I can. My memory-box be a little out of order.

1863 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 472 Nor prate of books nor papers, but endeavour To prove that they are all High-Dutch to you.

1900 Scots Mag. 25 197 This was all high Dutch to me, with the exception of taking ‘care of my mistress’.

2. With plural agreement. German settlers or their descendants in North America, regarded collectively. Cf. Low Dutch n. 3b. Now historical.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin

American1648

African1700

High Dutch1773

Low Dutch1773

German-American1775

African American1782

Anglo-American1785

Irish-American1786

Africo-American1788

American African1826

Pennsylvania German1827

Pennsylvania Dutch1831

Afro-American1833

far-downer1834

Mexicano1847

knickerbocker1848

Chinese-American1854

Italian–American1873

Polish-American1876

Polacker1883

roundhead1895

hunk1896

Polack1898

Senegambian1900

bohunk1903

honky1904

hunyak1911

Turk1914

boho1920

Anglo1923

Euro-American1925

turkey1932

narrowback1933

nisei1934

roundheader1934

pachuco1943

pocho1944

Latino1946

Chicano1947

Mexican-American1948

Asian American1952

Amerasian1957

Chicana1966

Afrikan1972

Hispanic1972

1773 F. Asbury Jrnl. 4 Apr. (1852) I. 70 There are several places of Divine worship: the Episcopalians have three; the High Dutch, one; the Low Dutch, three.

1803 Monthly Mag. Sept. 123/1 The state of New York..receives a multitude of Germans, (as all the High and Low Dutch are indiscriminately called).

1812 G. A. Thompson Geogr. & Hist. Dict. Amer. & W. Indies I. 28/1 The public buildings are, a low Dutch church,..one for Germans or High Dutch, and one for Methodists.

1910 Pennsylvania-German Dec. 745/1 Even Washington Irving still speaks of the settlers in the Mohawk Valley as ‘High Dutch’.

1996 A. S. Fogleman Hopeful Journeys 197 (note) The ‘Low Dutch’ came from the area of the present Netherlands, while the ‘High Dutch’ came from the area of the middle and upper Rhine.

3. South African. Standard (Netherlands) Dutch as distinguished from Cape Dutch or Afrikaans. Cf. Low Dutch n. 4.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Dutch

Dutcha1706

Netherlandish1830

High Dutch1880

High Dutch1901

Nederlands1926

1880 Cape Monthly Mag. July 38 So far from being an improvement upon High Dutch and a richer language,..it [sc. Cape Dutch] is..infinitely poorer on account of its defective vocabulary.

1899 W. S. Logeman & J. F. Van Oordt How to Speak Dutch 33 The main points of difference between so-called ‘High Dutch’ and Cape Dutch phonetics and spelling may be enumerated.

1911 H. H. Fyfe S. Afr. To-day viii. 96 High Dutch..is not the language of the Dutch people in South Africa..the ‘taal’..is the common speech.

1936 T. J. Haarhoff & C. M. van den Heever Achievem. of Afrikaans i. 13 While we tried to write in High Dutch our thoughts were cast in rigid moulds;..and the result was often secondhand rhetoric.

1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari iii. 60 In High Dutch I wrote: ‘I have decided to-day.’

2003 V. Bickford-Smith Ethnic Pride & Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town iii. 41 The leadership of this Afrikaner ethnic mobilisation was hijacked..by wealthy commercial farmers, people who spoke a dialect closer to high Dutch.

B. adj.

= High German adj. Cf. Low Dutch n. 1.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > German > High or Low German

High Dutch1574

Low Dutch1597

High German1660

Low German1660

Pennsylvania German1866

1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 20 There was amongst those stamped metalles, certaine that were Greek, some Latin, some Caldee, some Arabick, some Gothick, & other some high Dutch [Sp. germanicas].

1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 17/2 Gente Alemána, the high Dutch people, the high Germans.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 153 The high Dutch or Teutonic tongue is one of the prime and most spacious maternall languages of Europe.

1677 F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. 533 Charles Lodowick was commonly called the Palsgrave from the High Dutch Psaltzgraff, Palatij Comes.

a1721 M. Prior Misc. Wks. (1740) II. 60 When you with High-Dutch Heeren dine, Expect false Latin, and stumm'd Wine.

1790 P. Peckard Mem. Life Mr. Nicholas Ferrar 47 During his stay there [sc. Hamburgh] he procured a Scholar of the country to..instruct him in the High Dutch language.

1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xix I'd rather hear the Cruiskeen Lawn..than a score of your high Dutch jawbreakers.

1868 Sat. Rev. 28 Mar. 420/2 Few in those days ventured on the High-Dutch text.

1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 785/2 The High-Dutch practice of ennobling every substantive with a capital.

1908 H. Taylor Sci. Jurispr. 442 Federal governments..that had grown up between the Low-Dutch communities at the mouth of the Rhine, and between the High-Dutch communities in the mountains of Switzerland.

1978 Renaissance Q. 31 25 The High Dutch name for mugwort is Sant Johanus Wurtell.

2012 H. W. Marshall Play me Something Quick & Devilish v. 151 Both sides of Haslag's family came to Missouri..from the Lower Rhine Valley in southwestern Germany, bringing with them their ‘high-Dutch’ German dialect.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high dutch
释义	High Dutchn.adj. Brit. /ˌhʌɪ ˈdʌtʃ/, U.S. /ˌhaɪ ˈdətʃ/ Forms: see high adj. and n.² and Dutch adj., n.¹, and adv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably partly modelled on a Dutch lexical item, probably partly modelled on a Middle Low German lexical item, and probably partly modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: high adj., Dutch n.¹; high adj., Dutch adj. Etymology: As noun < high adj. + Dutch n.¹ As adjective < high adj. + Dutch adj. Probably at least in part after Dutch hoogduits, Middle Low German hōchdǖdesch, German hochdeutsch (see High German n.). Compare Middle French, French haut allemand (mid 16th cent. as noun, or earlier). Compare Low Dutch n. In sense A. 3 corresponding to Afrikaans Hooghollands. Now chiefly historical. A. n. 1. a. = High German n. 2. Cf. Low Dutch n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > German > varieties of High Dutch1560 High German1652 Swabian?1743 Alsatian1826 Varangian1831 Pennsylvania Dutch1848 Viennese1849 Pennsylvania German1853 Frankish1863 Tyroler1887 Limburger1932 a1500 (a1451) in Ld. Clermont Wks. J. Fortescue (1869) I. 553 (MED) The Northe est Contrey..whiche lond spekyn all maner Duche tonge, hyer Dowche, and lower Duche.] 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries xxii. f. cccliij^v Maximilian..was a Prince of great towardnes, & could speake sondry languages, especially the highe dutche [L. Germanicam inprimis]. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxxi. 590 Called..in high Douche [Fr. en haut Aleman, Du. in Hoochduytsch], Melaunen: in base Almaigne, Meloenen: in Englishe, Melons. 1613 W. Shute tr. J. J. Orlers & H. van Haestens Triumphs of Nassau 5 Their antient speech is high Dutch [Fr. l'Allemand]: vpon the Frontiers of France they speak Wallon. 1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland ii. 87 In one half of the Countrey they preach in high Dutch, and in other half in a corrupt Italian, which they call Romanish. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 64 I spoke high Dutch. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 150 A chronicle of Nurenberg, in high Dutch, written in the year 1585. 1831 J. C. Prichard Eastern Origin Celtic Nations ii. 59 For water in English and Holland-Dutch and Platt-Deutsch, the High-Dutch has wasser. 1870 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 423/2 Still the native speech of all Southern Germany is High-Dutch. 1932 G. K. Chesterton in Illustr. London News 11 June 4/3 The notion of an Aryan Race uniting those who talked Sanskrit with those who talk High Dutch is not a reality. 2010 B. Bryson Seeing Further 4 He filed his reports in Low Dutch because he had no English and no Latin. He didn't even have High Dutch, it appears. b. Language that a person cannot understand; = double Dutch at Dutch n.¹ 2b. Chiefly in to be (all) High Dutch to a person. Now rare. 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 1602 W. Watson tr. E. Pasquier Iesuites Catech. i. ii. f. 5 I beseech you decyfer your doctrine that I may vnderstand it, for to say truth, this is high Dutch [Fr. le haut Allemand] to me. 1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Amorous Quarrel ii. vii. in Molière Wks. I. 245 My Father..never taught me any thing but my Mass-Book, which, though I have said it daily for fifty Years, is still High Dutch to me. 1790 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs I. 153 Why 'twas just all as one as high Dutch. 1834 London & Paris Observer 9 Mar. 137/1 That's all high Dutch to me, master; but I'll go on if I can. My memory-box be a little out of order. 1863 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 472 Nor prate of books nor papers, but endeavour To prove that they are all High-Dutch to you. 1900 Scots Mag. 25 197 This was all high Dutch to me, with the exception of taking ‘care of my mistress’. 2. With plural agreement. German settlers or their descendants in North America, regarded collectively. Cf. Low Dutch n. 3b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin American1648 African1700 High Dutch1773 Low Dutch1773 German-American1775 African American1782 Anglo-American1785 Irish-American1786 Africo-American1788 American African1826 Pennsylvania German1827 Pennsylvania Dutch1831 Afro-American1833 far-downer1834 Mexicano1847 knickerbocker1848 Chinese-American1854 Italian–American1873 Polish-American1876 Polacker1883 roundhead1895 hunk1896 Polack1898 Senegambian1900 bohunk1903 honky1904 hunyak1911 Turk1914 boho1920 Anglo1923 Euro-American1925 turkey1932 narrowback1933 nisei1934 roundheader1934 pachuco1943 pocho1944 Latino1946 Chicano1947 Mexican-American1948 Asian American1952 Amerasian1957 Chicana1966 Afrikan1972 Hispanic1972 1773 F. Asbury Jrnl. 4 Apr. (1852) I. 70 There are several places of Divine worship: the Episcopalians have three; the High Dutch, one; the Low Dutch, three. 1803 Monthly Mag. Sept. 123/1 The state of New York..receives a multitude of Germans, (as all the High and Low Dutch are indiscriminately called). 1812 G. A. Thompson Geogr. & Hist. Dict. Amer. & W. Indies I. 28/1 The public buildings are, a low Dutch church,..one for Germans or High Dutch, and one for Methodists. 1910 Pennsylvania-German Dec. 745/1 Even Washington Irving still speaks of the settlers in the Mohawk Valley as ‘High Dutch’. 1996 A. S. Fogleman Hopeful Journeys 197 (note) The ‘Low Dutch’ came from the area of the present Netherlands, while the ‘High Dutch’ came from the area of the middle and upper Rhine. 3. South African. Standard (Netherlands) Dutch as distinguished from Cape Dutch or Afrikaans. Cf. Low Dutch n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Dutch Dutcha1706 Netherlandish1830 High Dutch1880 High Dutch1901 Nederlands1926 1880 Cape Monthly Mag. July 38 So far from being an improvement upon High Dutch and a richer language,..it [sc. Cape Dutch] is..infinitely poorer on account of its defective vocabulary. 1899 W. S. Logeman & J. F. Van Oordt How to Speak Dutch 33 The main points of difference between so-called ‘High Dutch’ and Cape Dutch phonetics and spelling may be enumerated. 1911 H. H. Fyfe S. Afr. To-day viii. 96 High Dutch..is not the language of the Dutch people in South Africa..the ‘taal’..is the common speech. 1936 T. J. Haarhoff & C. M. van den Heever Achievem. of Afrikaans i. 13 While we tried to write in High Dutch our thoughts were cast in rigid moulds;..and the result was often secondhand rhetoric. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari iii. 60 In High Dutch I wrote: ‘I have decided to-day.’ 2003 V. Bickford-Smith Ethnic Pride & Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town iii. 41 The leadership of this Afrikaner ethnic mobilisation was hijacked..by wealthy commercial farmers, people who spoke a dialect closer to high Dutch. B. adj. = High German adj. Cf. Low Dutch n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > German > High or Low German High Dutch1574 Low Dutch1597 High German1660 Low German1660 Pennsylvania German1866 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 20 There was amongst those stamped metalles, certaine that were Greek, some Latin, some Caldee, some Arabick, some Gothick, & other some high Dutch [Sp. germanicas]. 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 17/2 Gente Alemána, the high Dutch people, the high Germans. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 153 The high Dutch or Teutonic tongue is one of the prime and most spacious maternall languages of Europe. 1677 F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. 533 Charles Lodowick was commonly called the Palsgrave from the High Dutch Psaltzgraff, Palatij Comes. a1721 M. Prior Misc. Wks. (1740) II. 60 When you with High-Dutch Heeren dine, Expect false Latin, and stumm'd Wine. 1790 P. Peckard Mem. Life Mr. Nicholas Ferrar 47 During his stay there [sc. Hamburgh] he procured a Scholar of the country to..instruct him in the High Dutch language. 1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xix I'd rather hear the Cruiskeen Lawn..than a score of your high Dutch jawbreakers. 1868 Sat. Rev. 28 Mar. 420/2 Few in those days ventured on the High-Dutch text. 1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 785/2 The High-Dutch practice of ennobling every substantive with a capital. 1908 H. Taylor Sci. Jurispr. 442 Federal governments..that had grown up between the Low-Dutch communities at the mouth of the Rhine, and between the High-Dutch communities in the mountains of Switzerland. 1978 Renaissance Q. 31 25 The High Dutch name for mugwort is Sant Johanus Wurtell. 2012 H. W. Marshall Play me Something Quick & Devilish v. 151 Both sides of Haslag's family came to Missouri..from the Lower Rhine Valley in southwestern Germany, bringing with them their ‘high-Dutch’ German dialect. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas High Dutch d. High Dutch (South African) [translating Afrikaans Hooghollands] , Netherlands (literary) Dutch as distinguished from Cape Dutch or Afrikaans. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Dutch Dutcha1706 Netherlandish1830 High Dutch1880 High Dutch1901 Nederlands1926 1901 W. S. Logeman & J. F. van Oordt How to speak Dutch (ed. 3) i. 31 The main points of difference between so-called ‘High Dutch’ and Cape-Dutch phonetics and spelling may be enumerated as follows. 1911 H. H. Fyfe S. Afr. To-day viii. 96 High Dutch..is not the language of the Dutch people in South Africa..the ‘taal’..is the common speech. 1936 T. J. Haarhoff & C. M. van den Heever Achievem. of Afrikaans i. 13 While we tried to write in High Dutch our thoughts were cast in rigid moulds;..and the result was often secondhand rhetoric. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari iii. 60 In High Dutch I wrote: ‘I have decided to-day.’ extracted from Dutchadj.n.¹adv. < n.adj.1560 as lemmas
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High Dutchn.adj.

> as lemmas