| 单词 | to be high dutch to a person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be (all) High Dutch to a person 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’. < as lemmas |
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