Dutch
People from the Netherlands, a country in Western Europe.
| Term | Origin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Cheese-Eater | Represents their fondness for eating cheese; used mostly by Germans. | |
| Cloggie | Refers to the wooden shoes (clogs). | |
| Dyke | In this context used against Dutch people, referencing the famous Dutch system of dikes and windmills. Separate from its use as a slur against lesbian women. | |
| Dyke-Jumper | Because of all the dykes in Holland, Dutch farmers supposedly used long wooden poles to pole-vault from one section of farmland to another. | |
| Hollowhead | A play on the name "Holland," folk-etymologized as "hollow land" because the country is so flat. | |
| Kaaskop | Dutch for "cheese head." Refers to improvised helmets made of cheese buckets, as worn by militant farmers during the Eighty Years' War. | |
| Kees | Flemish for "cheese." Also a very common name in Holland (and possibly also Flanders), a shortened form of the name "Cornelis." Sometimes spelled "Cees." | |
| Lowlander | The Netherlands is below sea level. | |
| Marsh Nigger | The Netherlands is a very marshy country. | |
| Orangie | The national Dutch color is orange, and they manifest this color everywhere in their country, from soccer season to vehicle paint jobs. | |
| Peter Pan/Tinkerbell | The Dutch live in the Netherlands (Neverland). | |
| Shoe | Name is derived from the wooden shoes they would wear. | |
| Windmill Winder | They have lots of windmills. | |
| Woodies | They are known to wear wooden shoes. |