| 单词 | dutch |
| 释义 | ▪ I. dutch, n.2 slang.
[Abbrev. of duchess.]
A costermonger's wife; gen. a wife; often old Dutch.
a1889Mitchell Jimmy Johnson's Holiday (Barrère & Leland), He made a vow he'd never row With his old Dutch again. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 341/2 Dutch (popular), a wife. 1893A. Chevalier My Old Dutch, There ain't a lady livin' in the land As I'd ‘swop’ for my dear old Dutch! 1901R. C. Lehmann Anni Fugaces 128, I detected a coster..with some one to act as his Dutch. 1926Calgary Daily Herald 7 June, Joe Brown, Sal Gratton, and the rest of the quaint coster characters of ‘My Old Dutch’ come to life and live over their romantic story at the Strand theatre.
▪ II. dutch, v.
[f. Dutch a.]
trans. To clarify and harden (quills) by plunging them in heated sand or rapidly passing them through a fire.
1763Lond. Chron. 3–6 Sept. 231/1 Advt., The whole art of Dutching, Clarifying, and Making of Quills perfectly clear and hard. 1768Woman of Honor III. 215 Hardened like a quill, by being Dutched. 1837Whittock, etc. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 373 We imported vast quantities of quills from Hamburgh, Rotterdam, etc., and these were clarified or Dutched. |
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