Deadman vs Dutchman - What's the difference?
deadman | dutchman |
(obsolete) A corpse
(construction) A long object, often a timber or log, buried to serve as an anchor for a wall or for stays.''
(rail transport) A cutout device with operates in the event of driver incapacity.
A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
A person of Dutch descent
A German
(South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.
* 1990 , Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams (page 54)
(US) A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
:* President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].
English nouns with irregular plurals
As nouns the difference between deadman and dutchman
is that deadman is (obsolete) a corpse while dutchman is (carpentry|masonry) a piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.deadman
English
Noun
(deadmen)- ''There is no deadman to be found at Deadman's Curve.
- The building code requires deadmen for retaining walls.
dutchman
English
Noun
(Dutchmen)- the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen . Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
See also
* DutchwomanDerived terms
* Dutchman's breeches * Dutchman's laudanum * Dutchman's pipe * Flying DutchmanProper noun
(en proper noun)- 2003 Bradley, James Flyboys . New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 8: