Double Dutch

Double Dutch Examples noun (sometimes lowercase)

1. a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.

double Dutch noun Slang.

1. unintelligible or garbled speech or language: She could have been talking double Dutch for all we understood of it.

Origin of double Dutch First recorded in 1875–80 Related Words for double dutch babble, baloney, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, malarkey, nonsense, rubbish, hooey, Choctaw, Greek, hokum Examples from the Web for double dutch Historical Examples of double dutch

The paper was covered with lines, circles, and writing that appeared to us like “double-Dutch.”

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British Dictionary definitions for double dutch double Dutch noun

1. British informal incomprehensible talk; gibberish

Word Origin and History for double dutch Double Dutch

“gibberish,” 1864 (High Dutch for “incomprehensible language” is recorded from 1789); from double (adj.) + Dutch.

Idioms and Phrases with double dutch double Dutch 1

Language that cannot be understood, gibberish, as in They might have been speaking double Dutch, for all I understood. This usage dates from the 1870s (an earlier version, however, had it as high Dutch) and is heard less often today than the synonym double talk.

2

A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross fashion.