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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Holland
Synonyms:
Dutchman; Hollander; Netherlander
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Dutchman" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Holonyms ("Dutchman" is a member of...):
Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)
Context examples:
It was only yesterday that we had an infernal Dutchman here howling about some arrears of interest and the deuce knows what. ‘My good fellow,’ said I, ‘as long as the Commons starve me, I have to starve you,’ and so the matter ended.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I observed among them a Dutchman, who seemed to be of some authority, though he was not commander of either ship.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But the big Dutchman frustrated him, seizing him by the nape of the neck and dancing him up and down.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This is a free country, an' I'm to tell that fat Dutchman what I think of him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"I wish you was in it, you pig-headed Dutchman!" he shouted.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"That's what the Flyin' Dutchman thought," Jimmy assured him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And in his heart of hearts Martin understood the situation only too well, as he leaned back and gloated at Von Schmidt's head, in fancy punching it well-nigh off of him, sending blow after blow home just right—the chuckle-headed Dutchman!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
