A German. The N.E.D. furnishes examples 1387, 1413, &c. Long obs. in England.
1778. She is a lusty wench, speaks good English and Dutch:… a likely molatto wench.—Maryland Journal, Jan. 27.
1778. This affidavit-man is a Dutchman, with whom I was obliged to converse by an interpreter.—Id., Nov. 24.
1794. A piece of sliced cabbage, by Dutchmen ycleped cold slaw.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 12.
1799. Two Dutchmen from Northampton, who were violently opposed to the Stamp Act, lately arrived.—The Aurora, Phila., April 6.
1807. I think they call him German, though he is not a Dutchman.—The Balance, March 10 (p. 75).
1829. It is said the Dutchman got cloyed with her name, so dissonant with his beloved sour-krout and buttermilk.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 4.
1838. I would gather the light of these documents into a focus so bright and so hot that every Dutchman in Maryland and Pennsylvania might light his pipe by it.—Mr. Wise of Virginia, House of Repr., Dec. 28: Cong. Globe, p. 76.
1841. The dull, drowsy, beef-eyed Dutchmen,… the Hessian boobies.—W. G. Simms, ‘The Kinsmen,’ ii. 27 (Phila.).
1859. The Glasspteen-man [glass-put-in] is almost invariably a German, or, as the profane have it, a Dutchman, of an age any where between eighteen and forty.—Knick. Mag., liii. 403 (April).
