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The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world, where each person pays for their meal. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative), [1] and doing Dutch. A derivative is "sharing Dutch", having a joint ownership of luxury goods. For example: four people share the ownership of a plane, boat, car ...
Tatta is a pejorative racist term meaning potato because Dutch people eat a lot of potatoes. tuig: Tuig ("scum") refers to people (mostly youngsters, compared to the milder term hangjongere) who hang around in the streets and around bars, commit petty crimes, and bother or mistreat passers-by. Tokkie
A Dutch lunch is a meal primarily focused on delicatessen foods such as cured meats, cheeses, and sausages, and occasionally alcohol. Merriam-Webster describes it as "an individual serving of assorted sliced cold meats and cheeses". [1] There has been controversy on whether the term "Dutch" refers to a meal in the Netherlands style or the ...
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
(slang) faeces (feces); nonsense or rubbish: "what a load of cack" could equally be used to describe someone talking nonsense or as a criticism of something of poor quality. Also spelt "kak" as used in Afrikaans and Dutch.
A bizarre and relatively new tradition in the Netherlands has it that, every 29 November, Dutch families should sit down for dinner with a pancake on their heads in order to wish one another “a ...
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
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).