Meaning of High Dutch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pennsylvania Dutch, particularly the Fancy Dutch.
   US
2. Double Dutch; nonsense.
   archaic, uncountable
3. The standard Dutch language, especially the literary Dutch language of the Netherlands, as contrasted with Cape Dutch or Afrikaans.
   South-Africa
4. High German.
   archaic

Examples

“The Emperor Charles V, made almoſt the ſame Obſervation, when he ſaid, That if he were to ſpeak to his Horſe, it ſhould be in High-Dutch.”

“[H]is impatience increased, he swore in high Dutch, the noise of the wheels on his pavement saluted his ears, his vexation redoubled […].”

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