单词 | kitchen dutch |
释义 | > as lemmaskitchen Dutch kitchen Dutch n. chiefly South African (now historical and rare) a derogatory term for: Cape Dutch, South African Dutch, or Afrikaans, as distinguished from standard (Netherlands) Dutch. [After Dutch kombuis-Hollands.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Dutch > Afrikaans Dutch1731 Cape Dutch1826 South African Dutch1871 kitchen Dutch1880 Afrikaans1885 Afrikander1886 taal1896 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Dutch > Afrikaans > dialect of kitchen Dutch1880 1880 J. Nixon Among Boers ix. 209 The language in vogue among the Boers and the semi-civilised native tribes of South Africa is a patois of Dutch, known as Kitchen Dutch. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XII. 763/2 By 1875, when the spoken language was firmly established, S. J. du Toit founded a ‘Society of True Afrikaners’ to propagate the written language; this met at first with violent opposition from the peasant and the politician—both English and Dutch—and Afrikaans was called kitchen Dutch, as the Greek of the Bible was once supposed to be ‘bad’ Greek. 1964 V. Pohl Dawn & After 102 What delighted us most was the originality of Gashep's speech. To us he spoke a kind of kitchen Dutch into which he introduced English and Sesuto words. 2003 B. Trapido Frankie & Stankie xi. 275 The vernacular, by then, was Afrikaans. Or, as the white people called it, Kitchen Dutch. < as lemmas |
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