double Dutch
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double (twice, i.e. more than) + Dutch For sense 1: The English, historically, found Dutch (albeit a fellow Western Germanic language) particularly difficult to understand so anything that was completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch.
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- Incomprehensible language.
- A language game akin to pig Latin.
- A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
- (colloquial) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.
- A date where both man and woman pay for their portion of the bill.
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incomprehensible language
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