gibberish, unintelligible speech; incomprehensible writing; skipping rope game where players jump over two jump ropes that are rotating in opposite at the same time
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Double dutch Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Meaning
Nonsense.
Origin
The word Dutch comes up often in English in pejorative contexts - 'Dutch courage', I'm a Dutchman', etc. Like many nations the English have no great affection for their near neighbours.
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Origin
The word Dutch comes up often in English in pejorative contexts - 'Dutch courage', I'm a Dutchman', etc. Like many nations the English have no great affection for their near neighbours.
Noun
1. an incomprehensible talk
(hypernym) gibberish, gibber
(classification) colloquialism
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners
(hypernym) jump rope
Double dutch Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Double Dutch may refer to:
- Double Dutch (jump rope), a children's game
- Double Dutch, a language game primarily used in English:
- Tutnese
- Ubbi dubbi
- Izzle
- Double Dutch (writing style), a writing style used by John O'Mill
- "Double Dutch" (album), a 2005 album by the Eames Era
- "Double Dutch" (song), a 1983 pop song by Malcolm McLaren
- Double Dutch Bus, a 1980 Frankie Smith song with some lines in Izzle double talk, covered by Raven Samone in 2008
- Double Dutch, a young adult novel by Sharon Draper
- Using multiple forms of contraceptive simultaneously, usually one by the female, and one by the male.
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