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bedutch

bedutch verb: to Germanise.

Verb

bedutch (third-person singular simple present bedutches, present participle bedutching, simple past and past participle bedutched)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To Germanise.
    • As for the people not liking it, it would surely be easier to bedutch them back again than it was to bewelsh them before.1895, William Richard Wood Stephens, The Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman, D. C. L., LL.
  2. (rare, transitive) To make Dutch, or make like Dutch; Dutchify.

Forms of bedutch

third-person singular presentbedutches
present participlebedutching
past participlebedutched
pastbedutched

Origin of bedutch

From be- + Dutch.

Questions about bedutch

What does bedutch mean?
Bedutch means to Germanise.
What part of speech is bedutch?
Bedutch is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedutch?
The past tense of bedutch is bedutched.

Words near bedutch in the dictionary

  1. Bedus
  2. bedust
  3. bedusted
  4. bedusting
  5. bedusts
  6. bedutch
  7. bedutched
  8. bedutches
  9. bedutching
  10. bedward
  11. Bedwardism

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