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Dutchly

Dutchly adjective: characteristic of the Dutch people, language, culture, or nation; Dutchlike; Netherlandish.

Adjective

Dutchly (comparative more Dutchly, superlative most Dutchly)

  1. Characteristic of the Dutch people, language, culture, or nation; Dutchlike; Netherlandish.
    • Well, — that quiet, staid, Dutchly, phlegmatic little town went fairly wild at the sight of the slender, fair-haired boy.1905, Rose Eytinge, The Memories of Rose Eytinge

Adverb

Dutchly (comparative more Dutchly, superlative most Dutchly)

  1. In a Dutchlike manner.
    • The Dutch are very Dutchly open about vice and prostitution. The girls stand in windows; gangs of hair-gelled, shirttailed English boys full of Dutch courage and wind window-shop.2008, A.A. Gill, Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There - Page 292

Forms of Dutchly

Adjective
comparativemore Dutchly
superlativemost Dutchly
Adverb
comparativemore Dutchly
superlativemost Dutchly

Origin of Dutchly

From Dutch + -ly. Compare Dutchlike.

Questions about Dutchly

What does Dutchly mean?
Dutchly means characteristic of the Dutch people, language, culture, or nation; Dutchlike; Netherlandish.
What part of speech is Dutchly?
Dutchly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near Dutchly in the dictionary

  1. Dutchifying
  2. dutching
  3. Dutchkin
  4. Dutchland
  5. Dutchlike
  6. Dutchly
  7. dutchman
  8. Dutchman's breeches
  9. Dutchman's laudanum
  10. Dutchman's laudanums
  11. Dutchman's log

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