double Dutch

Senso (Inglese)

1. (uncountable) Incomprehensible language or speech.
2. (uncountable) A language game akin to pig Latin.
3. (uncountable) A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
4. (colloquial, uncountable) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.

Concetti

arabo

parlare in slang

sinonimi

gibberish

gobbledygook

babble

cant

double talk

incomprehensible

jargon

lingo

unintelligible language

incoherent language

talking nonsense

Greek

🇬🇷

“all Greek to me”

Hebrew

babbling

Traduzioni

charabia

Kauderwelsch

jerigonza

Buch mit sieben Siegeln

c’est du russe

incohérent

koeterwaals

wartaal

anlaşılmaz

deli saçması

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dʌb.əl ˈdʌtʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.