Deutscher

plural Deutschers

1. A surname from German.

plural Deutschers

1. rareA German man.

   A couple of Deutschers been making sausage all night.

   1934, Maxwell Anderson, “Valley Forge”, in Eleven Verse Plays, Harcourt, Brace and Company by arrangement with Anderson House, published 1939, page 87

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   He left […] 10,000 dollars to the Lieber Vaterland association for defraying the fines of Deutschers prosecuted for ‘schlogging the kops’ of Irishmen.

   1875 October, George Augustus Sala, “Wills and Bequests: Not from the ‘Illustrated London News’”, in M[ary] E[lizabeth] Braddon, editor, Belgravia: A London Magazine, volume VII, third series; XXVII, first series, London: Office: […], page 331

   […] While two Deutschers say, “You’d better surrender to us ’tis true!”

   1876, Oswald Allan, Worthy a Crown?, London: Head and Meek, […], page 13, column 2

   HANS and Fritz were two Deutschers who lived side by side, / Remote from the world, its deceit and its pride; / With their pretzels and beer the spare moments were spent, / And the fruits of their labor were peace and content.

   1877, “Hans and Fritz”, in Appletons’ Journal: A Monthly Miscellany of Popular Literature, volume II, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], page 472, column 1

   ‘Then, to show their contempt for Boxers and Boxer-sympathizing cities—and in their daring lay their safety—a handful of these doughty Deutschers chose to enter the city, not through the big jagged hole they had made, but to scale those grim, sheer walls.

   1910 August 27, Charles Ernest Scott, ““The Apostle of Shantung””, in The Sunday School Times, volume fifty-two, number 35, Philadelphia, Pa., page 423, column 1

   Our cornet and trombone players, a couple of Deutschers known as “Gussie”’ and “Goosie,” took their music seriously and helped to cover my lousy fiddling while I was still learning that “der black notes ist der music, and der vite ist der paper” (as Gussie informed me).

   a. 1968, James Max Henderson, Memoirs of a Mouse, published 2003, →ISBN, page 24