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单词 Pennsylvania Dutch
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Definition of Pennsylvania Dutch in English:

Pennsylvania Dutch

(also Pennsylvania German)
noun pɛnsɪlveɪnɪəˈdʌtʃˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə ˌdətʃ
  • 1mass noun A dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania, chiefly by descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants from the Rhineland.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I quickly made a virus called Heevahava, the name being a Pennsylvania Dutch pejorative for a simpleton, colloquially - a farmhand given the job of harvesting sperm from a bull.
    • The Amish speak English, German, and a dialect known as Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch.
    • By ‘smear-case’ he meant Smierkase, a Pennsylvania Dutch term.
  • 2as plural noun the Pennsylvania Dutch" or "the Pennyslvania GermansThe German-speaking inhabitants of Pennsylvania, descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants from the Rhineland.

    德裔宾州人(说德语的宾夕法尼亚州居民,绝大部分为17、18世纪新教移民的后裔)

Origin

Dutch from German Deutsch 'German'.

Definition of Pennsylvania Dutch in US English:

Pennsylvania Dutch

(also Pennsylvania German)
nounˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə ˌdətʃˌpensəlˈvānyə ˌdəCH
  • 1A dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania, chiefly by descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants from the Rhineland.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By ‘smear-case’ he meant Smierkase, a Pennsylvania Dutch term.
    • I quickly made a virus called Heevahava, the name being a Pennsylvania Dutch pejorative for a simpleton, colloquially - a farmhand given the job of harvesting sperm from a bull.
    • The Amish speak English, German, and a dialect known as Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch.
  • 2as plural noun the Pennsylvania Dutch" or "the Pennyslvania GermansThe German-speaking inhabitants of Pennsylvania, descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants from the Rhineland.

    德裔宾州人(说德语的宾夕法尼亚州居民,绝大部分为17、18世纪新教移民的后裔)

Origin

Dutch from German Deutsch ‘German’.

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