Etymology:
- double + Dutch For sense 1: The English, historically, found Dutch particularly difficult to understand, so anything that was completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009
Additional definitions for 'double dutch':
double dutch | A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers. |
double dutch | A language game akin to pig Latin. |
double dutch | Incomprehensible language. |
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