Dutchly
English
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch + -ly. Compare Dutchlike.
Adjective
editDutchly (comparative more Dutchly, superlative most Dutchly)
- Characteristic of the Dutch people, language, culture, or nation; Dutchlike; Netherlandish.
- 1905, Rose Eytinge, The Memories of Rose Eytinge:
- Well, — that quiet, staid, Dutchly, phlegmatic little town went fairly wild at the sight of the slender, fair-haired boy.
Adverb
editDutchly (comparative more Dutchly, superlative most Dutchly)
- In a Dutchlike manner.
- 2008, A.A. Gill, Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There - Page 292:
- The Dutch are very Dutchly open about vice and prostitution. The girls stand in windows; gangs of hair-gelled, shirttailed English boys full of Dutch courage and wind window-shop.