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*When spoken before /dud/, /rut/ is changed to /rud/ A different set of syllables for the language game had appeared in The New York Times Magazine several decades earlier, and the author noted the similarities between the "Tutahash" and the "Double Dutch" language game, which he claimed to be the third most widely spoken language game in the United States when he was writing in 1944, but he ...
An American Dutch oven, 1896. A Dutch oven, Dutch pot (US English), or casserole dish (international) is a thick-walled cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid. Dutch ovens are usually made of seasoned cast iron; however, some Dutch ovens are instead made of cast aluminium, or ceramic.
Johan van der Meulen (11 January 1915, Breda - 13 September 2005, Breda), better known by his pseudonym John O'Mill (a jocular translation of his given name, as if O' stands for "of the"), was a Dutch author mostly known for his wordplay and limericks, and for using a macaronic combination of Dutch and English words and sentence structures he called "Double Dutch" (itself a pun on various ...
A Dutch oven is a kind of cooking pot. Dutch oven may also refer to: Dutch Oven (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse and winner of 1882 St. Leger Stakes; Dutch Oven, a pillar in Montana; Dutch oven, the protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler; particularly, but not exclusively, used on the London Underground
A modern double oven. This is a list of oven types. An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking or drying of a substance, [1] and most times used for cooking or for industrial processes (industrial oven). Kilns and furnaces are special-purpose ovens.
The Oxford English Dictionary connects "go Dutch" / "Dutch treat" to other phrases which have "an opprobrious or derisive application, largely due to the rivalry and enmity between the English and Dutch in the 17th century", the period of the Anglo-Dutch Wars. Another example is "Dutch courage". [1] A term bearing some similarities is Dutch oven.
Dutch uncle is an informal term for a person who issues frank, harsh or severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage or admonish someone. Thus, a "Dutch uncle" is the reverse of what is normally thought of as avuncular or uncle-like (indulgent and permissive).
Double Dutch may refer to: Double Dutch (jump rope), a skipping game; Double Dutch (writing style), used by John O'Mill; Double Dutch, by Sharon Draper, 2002; Double Dutch (DJ Sharpnel album), by DJ Sharpnel, 1998; Double Dutch (The Eames Era album), by the Eames Era, 2005 "Double Dutch" (song), by Malcolm McLaren, 1983; Double Dutch, a variety ...