Dutchman

See also: dutchman

English

Dutch +‎ -man

Dutchman (plural Dutchmen)

A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
A man of Dutch descent.
(US) A male Pennsylvania German.
(archaic or dated) A male German.
(South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A male white Afrikaner.
- 1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54:
  […] the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

a Dutch man

Bulgarian: холандец (holandec)
Catalan: neerlandès (ca) m; (dated) holandès (ca) m
Valencian: neerlandés (ca) m; (dated) holandés (ca) m
Czech: Nizozemec (cs) m
Dutch: Nederlander (nl) m
Esperanto: nederlandano
Finnish: hollantilais mies
French: Néerlandais (fr) m, Hollandais (fr) m
German: Niederländer (de) m, Holländer (de) m
Greek: Ολλανδός (el) m (Ollandós)
Icelandic: Hollendingur m, Niðurlendingur m
Italian: olandese (it) m or f
Japanese: オランダ人 (ja) (Oranda-jin)

Dutchman

(US) A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2003 Bradley, James Flyboys. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 8:
- President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].

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