double Dutch

noun, Slang.
1.
unintelligible or garbled speech or language:
She could have been talking double Dutch for all we understood of it.
Origin
1875-80

Double Dutch

noun, (sometimes lowercase)
1.
a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
British Dictionary definitions for double Dutch

double Dutch

noun
1.
(Brit, informal) incomprehensible talk; gibberish
Word Origin and History for double Dutch

Double Dutch

"gibberish," 1864 (High Dutch for "incomprehensible language" is recorded from 1789); from double (adj.) + Dutch.

Slang definitions & phrases for double Dutch

double Dutch

noun phrase

Language that cannot be understood, esp overly technical jargon: Plain English will do; cut the double Dutch

[1864+; Dutch, ''German,'' being unintelligible, double Dutch is twice as opaque]


Idioms and Phrases with double Dutch

double Dutch

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Language that cannot be understood, gibberish, as in They might have been speaking double Dutch, for all I understood . This usage dates from the 1870s (an earlier version, however, had it as high Dutch ) and is heard less often today than the synonym double talk
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A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross fashion.