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dutchy

a. difficult to understand, slurred, imprecisely articulated (of one's speech) (dialect: regional to rural Central New York State) n. (archaic spelling of duchy English)

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Dutchy

Dutchy or Dutchie may refer to:

Dutchy (Apache scout)

Dutchy, (ca. 1855 – 12 March 1893), born Bakeitzogie, meaning Yellow Coyote, was a Chiricahua and Apache scout who served with Lieutenant Britton Davis during the Apache wars. Dutchy enlisted on 13 March 1884. He served as a scout with Emmet Crawford and was promoted to sergeant of scouts. He was beaten to death on 12 March 1893 during a drunken brawl with white soldiers.

Usage examples of "dutchy".

Sweet God, I hope the Dutchies spare him the fate that they have in store for me.

What the Dutchies are doing to him here might have put a lesser man UP on the reef but, by God, all they have done to him is filled his main sail with a strong wind.

Within an hour, lamplight revealed a plain black iron pot, no different from the dutchies in which Negroes simmered ackee and saltcod.

Damn Dutchies always have a few English sailors aboard hiding out from the press-gang under a foreign flag.

Young Dutchy, that had been so cocky, took a charge of buckshot square in the face, died on that path kicking like a chicken with the head cut off.

He tried to imagine Pearl, lying beside Solly in the connubial bliss which enfolded Dutchy and himself.

So what he done, he teetered Mister Watson off the plank that led across the mud flats to the shore, done it to show them clam diggers and whatnot that Dutchy Melvin weren't afraid of E.

I don't want to introduce a solemn note now but as a psychologist and as a professional in guidance I know what can happen in a life which lacks what I call the Faith Focus, and there's nobody more pleased than I -- and I know here that I speak for Dutchy too -- that Pearlie has found herself, and that all those doubts and fears and misgivings are sublimated in that vast Power the happiness of which is something upon which Dutchy and I feel ourselves peculiar­ly qualified to speak.