Dutchman

English

Etymology

Dutch +‎ -man

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdʌtʃˌmən/

Noun

Dutchman (plural Dutchmen)

1. A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
2. (US) A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

   2003 Bradley, James Flyboys. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 8:

   • President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].

3. (South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.
   • 1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams (page 54)

     […] the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

See also

• Dutchwoman

Derived terms

• Flying Dutchman

Translations

a Dutch man

• Catalan: neerlandès (ca) m; (dated) holandès (ca) m

  Valencian: neerlandés (ca) m; (dated) holandés (ca) m

• Dutch: Nederlander (nl) m
• French: Néerlandais (fr) m, Hollandais (fr) m
• German: Niederländer (de) m, Holländer (de) m
• Icelandic: Hollendingur (is) m, Niðurlendingur (is) m
• Japanese: オランダ人 (ja) (Oranda-jin)

• Latvian: holandietis (lv) m, nīderlandietis (lv) m
• Polish: Holender (pl) m
• Romanian: olandez (ro) m, olandezi (ro) m pl
• Russian: голландец (ru) (gollándec) m
• Slovene: Nizozémec (sl) m
• Spanish: holandés (es) m
• Swedish: nederländare (sv), holländare (sv)
• Turkish: Hollandalı (tr)
• Welsh: Iseldirwr (cy) m