dutchy

plural dutchies

1. archaicArchaic spelling of duchy.

   The ſeigniorie alſo and principality of this part (which the Perſians call a Satrapy, that is, a Dutchy or Countey) doth in great meaſure exceede all other prouinces that are vnder the protection of the great King.

   1584, Herodotus, translated by B[arnabe] R[ich], The Famous Hystory of Herodotus. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, folio 61, recto

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   The United Netherlands, (in Latin called Belgium fœderatum,) which we here particularly ſpeak of, form the northern part of the Netherlands, and including the Generalitélandes, border to the ſouth on Auſtrian Flanders and Brabant, to the eaſt on the upper quarters of the dutchies of Gelders and Cleve, the biſhopric of Munſter, the County of Bentheim, and the principality of Eaſt Frieſland, and to the north and weſt on the northern ſea; forming a territory of about ſix hundred and twenty-five ſquare geographical miles.

   1762, A[nton] F[riedrich] Busching, “Introduction to the United Netherlands”, in [Patrick Murdoch], transl., A New System of Geography: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World; […], volumes III (Containing, Italy, Sardinia, Naples, Sicily, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, United Netherlands, and Swisserland), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, § 3, pages 449–450

comparative dutchier · superlative dutchiest

1. USdialectalregional to rural Central New York Statedifficult to understand, slurred, imprecisely articulated

   He is so dutchy that we can hardly understand him.

comparative more Dutchy · superlative most Dutchy

1. Somewhat Dutch.

   "You must go to Steinitzer's some day, after butter. You'd like them." "They sound kind of Dutchy."

   1934, Nelia Gardner White, Family Affair, page 72