double Dutch

1. language or speech that is difficult or impossible to understand. This book on English grammar is written in double Dutch. I can't understand a word. Try to find a lecturer who speaks slowly, not one who speaks double Dutch.

2. a game of jumping rope using two ropes swung simultaneously in opposite directions. The girls were playing double Dutch in the schoolyard.

double Dutch

(British & Australian)

speech or writing that is nonsense and cannot be understood He came out with a load of sophisticated grammatical codes and it all sounded like double Dutch.

double Dutch

1. 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.

2. A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross fashion.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bernice	bər-NEES (English)	English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Stephania	stə-FAN-yə	English
Walton	['wɔ:ltən]
Hershel	-	Yiddish
Louis	loo-EE (French), LOO-is (English)	French, English, Dutch
Betsy	BET-see	English