Dutchman

名词 n. 专有名词

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
    — About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
  2. A male Pennsylvania German. US
  3. A male German. archaic,dated
    — […]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.
  4. A male white Afrikaner. South-Africa,derogatory
    — […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
  5. Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
专有名词
  1. A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. US
    — President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].

词形变化

Dutchmen plural the Dutchman canonical

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle Dutch duutschbor.
Old Saxon thiudisk
Middle Low German dütschbor.
Middle English Duch
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English Ducheman
English Dutchman
From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle Dutch duutschbor.
Old Saxon thiudisk
Middle Low German dütschbor.
Middle English Duch
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English Ducheman
English Dutchman
From Middle English Ducheman; equivalent to Dutch + -man.
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