Pennsylvania Dutch
(亦作Pennsylvania German)
noun
1
- mass noun a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania宾州德语(在宾夕法尼亚州某些地方所说的一种高地德语方言)。
2
- as plural noun(the Pennsylvania Dutch 或Germans)the German-speaking inhabitants of Pennsylvania, descendants for the most part of 17th-and 18th-century Protestant immigrants.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)。
词源
Dutch from German Deutsch 'German'.