double Dutch
短语n. 莫名其妙的话
发音
AU
/dʌb.əl ˈdʌtʃ/
释义与例句
n.
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1.
Incomprehensible language or speech.
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2.
A language game akin to pig Latin.
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3.
A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
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4.
Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.
非正式 不可数
词汇关系
词源
From double (“twice, i.e. more than”) + Dutch. For sense 1: Dutch (which historically had a wider meaning) as a foreign language was not easily understood, so anything completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. Sense 2 expands on this meaning.
来源：wiktionary