bedutch

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ Dutch.

Verb

bedutch (third-person singular simple present bedutches, present participle bedutching, simple past and past participle bedutched)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To Germanise.
    • 1895, William Richard Wood Stephens, The Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman, D. C. L., LL.:
      As for the people not liking it, it would surely be easier to bedutch them back again than it was to bewelsh them before.
  2. (transitive) To make Dutch, or make like Dutch; Dutchify.
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