Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

Pennsylvania Dutch


(also Pennsylvania German)
Definition of Pennsylvania Dutch

noun

[mass noun]
  • a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania, chiefly by descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants.

Origin:

Dutch from German Deutsch 'German'

Pennsylvania Dutch in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Pennsylvania Dutch in the US English dictionary