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In South Korea, "going Dutch" is called "Dutch pay" (λμΉνμ΄), a Konglish loan phrase. For romantic dates, men usually pay. For romantic dates, men usually pay. In the People's Republic of China , after a group meal, it is expected that the bill be paid by the person who has highest social standing or highest income, or by the person who ...
Black Dutch is a term with several different meanings in United States dialect and slang. It generally refers to racial , ethnic or cultural roots. Its meaning varies and such differences are contingent upon time and place.
There are a number of phrases that refer to Dutch people, or originate from the Netherlands. List ... "Dutch courage, going Dutch, double Dutch: ...
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
In seventeenth-century Dutch, Hottentot was at times used to denote all black people (synonymously with Kaffir, which was at times likewise used for Cape Coloureds and Khoisans), but at least some speakers used the term Hottentot specifically for what they thought of as a race distinct from the supposedly darker-skinned people referred to as Kaffirs.
This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
Thus it originates in the use of "Dutch" meaning "spurious": Dutch Book, Dutch Courage . . . . Jackaroodave 18:58, 16 June 2007 (UTC) The whole article seems nonsense to me. The origin lies in the 17th century England and Holland were rivals. They fought wars in 1652-54, 1665-67 and 1672-74 and the Dutch were kicking England's ass.
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever.The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [1] [2] [3] and of Dutch maritime power.