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Definition: Dutch Courage |
Dutch CourageNoun1. Courage resulting from intoxication. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Dutch Courage The courage excited by drink; pot valour. "In the Dutch wars (in the time of Charles II.), ...the captain of the Hollander man-of-war, when about to engage with our ships, usually set ... a hogshead of brandy abroach before the mast, and bid the men drink ... and our men felt the force of the brandy to their cost." - Notes and Queries (Oct. 15, 1892, p. 304). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cowardice | Poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear; white feather, faint heart; cold feet , yellow streak. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dutch Courage (1922) | |
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Expression using "Dutch courage": you need a bit of dutch courage. Additional references. | |
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dutch courage | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Dutch courage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trimëri nga pija. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الشجاعة الهولندية, شجاعة من جراء شرب مسكر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | napij se na kuráž (you need a bit of dutch courage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | courage trouvé dans la boisson, courage puisé dans l'alcool. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | angetrunkener Mut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אמץ משתי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alkoholból merített bátorság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | creeaght yn jough. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utchday ouragecay curajul beţivului. (various references) смелость (adventurousness, audacity, boldness, confidence, courage, daring, grittiness, gumption, hardihood, hardiness, pecker, pluck, pluckiness, spunk, spunkiness, temerity), вызываемая алкогольным опьянением. (various references) envalentonamiento (arrogance, arrogancy). (various references) brännvinskurage (pot valour). (various references) ความบ้าบิ่นจากฤทธิ์ของเหล้า. (various references) içkiden gelen cesaret. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ulmus campestris, Ulmus carpinifolia. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-g-h-o-r-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: dogcatcher, outcharged. | |
-3 letters: accoutred, cartouche, outargued, outcharge. | |
-4 letters: accouter, accoutre, aeroduct, authored, cartouch, chordate, crotched, crouched, crutched, daughter, educator, goatherd, grouched, grutched, outargue, outheard, outraced, outraged, outreach, ragouted. | |
-5 letters: accrued, augured, caroche, catcher, catechu, cathode, charged, charted, coached, coacher, coacted, cordage, cordate, couched, coucher, coughed, cougher, courage, courted, couteau, couther, couture, crochet, curated, dogcart. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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