double Dutch
Εννοια (Αγγλικός)
- (uncountable) Incomprehensible language or speech.
- (uncountable) A language game akin to pig Latin.
- (uncountable) A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.
Συνώνυμα
unintelligible language
incoherent language
talking nonsense
“all Greek to me”
Μεταφράσεις
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/dʌb.əl ˈdʌtʃ/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)
From double (“twice, i.e. more than”) + Dutch. For sense 1: Dutch (which historically had a wider meaning) as a foreign language was not easily understood, so anything completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. Sense 2 expands on this meaning.
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