double Dutch
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
-
Incomprehensible language or speech.
— “Tell him I don’t know what he’s talking about. It’s double Dutch to me.”
- A language game akin to pig Latin.
- A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
- Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.
词源
From double (“twice, i.e. more than”) + Dutch.
For sense 1: Dutch (which historically had a wider meaning) as a foreign language was not easily understood, so anything completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. Sense 2 expands on this meaning.
For sense 1: Dutch (which historically had a wider meaning) as a foreign language was not easily understood, so anything completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. Sense 2 expands on this meaning.
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