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  • noun The quality or characteristic of being Dutch.

Etymologies

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Dutch +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • "Dutchness" of Poughkeepsie and Albany, and Hudson, and many other places which I never heard of.

    The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901

  • People who disagreed with me often invoked their native Dutchness, their instinctively greater understanding of all Dutch problems.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • People who disagreed with me often invoked their native Dutchness, their instinctively greater understanding of all Dutch problems.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • People who disagreed with me often invoked their native Dutchness, their instinctively greater understanding of all Dutch problems.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Welkum, RobbevonScholle, ai seem to detect a hint of Dutchness/Deutschness in ur id?

    O hai! I lined ur shelvs… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • That's a deliberate fudge on my part; I want to evoke a feeling of Dutchness, so the language has to stay.

    I have a plot! shweta_narayan 2008

  • I would read ten pages, get tired, put it down, read twenty pages, get into the Dutchness of it and plow through another 30, then not have time to keep going, etc.

    Ik ben zo erg OPGEWONDEN! bradamant 2004

  • I was touched by the way the Dutch clung to their Dutchness on the equator, though I grew impatient when the British did the same kind of thing in India.

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

  • Porters surged round us, urging the claims of rival hotels; men in indigo cotton blouses pleaded for our luggage; and altogether we were overwhelmed by a tidal wave of Dutchness.

    The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901

  • "He won't know you understand English," I said, determining to strengthen in Sir Alec's mind, by every means in my power, the impression of Robert's Dutchness.

    The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901

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