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Black Dutch

(US, obsolete, _, or, _, historical) A European with dark hair, eyes, and skin, especially one from or claiming to be from Germany or the Netherlands, sometimes (pejorative, ethnic slur) with disparag

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

(US, obsolete, _, or, _, historical) A European with dark hair, eyes, and skin, especially one from or claiming to be from Germany or the Netherlands, sometimes (pejorative, ethnic slur) with disparaging racial overtones.

Origin: In reference to Germans, a mangled calque of black Germans under influence from Dutch. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

(US, obsolete, _, or, _, historical) A person passing for such a European, especially Native Americans or people from multiracial families.

: The same usage still prevails among the vulgar as in the phrases, 'black Irish', 'black Dutch', describing certain well known types of Celts and Teutons (Hollanders, probably), differing widely from the prevailing type of either race i…
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

A Dutch citizen with sub-Saharan African ancestry.

1997 March, James Pylant, "In Search of the Black Dutch", American Genealogy Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1:
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