Pennsylvania Dutch Definition
noun
The descendants of early German immigrants, principally from the Palatinate, who settled mainly in E Pennsylvania.
Webster's New World
The High German dialect of this people.
Webster's New World
The style of folk art and decorative arts developed by the Pennsylvania Dutch.
American Heritage
Their form of folk art, characterized by carved or painted, stylized decorations of flowers, fruits, birds, etc., as on furniture.
Webster's New World
pronoun
Those people of German origin who settled in the Pennsylvania area prior to 1800, and their descendants.
Wiktionary
Their language, Pennsylvania German, a High German language descended from Palatine German. (Not to be confused with the Low German language Plautdietsch.).
Wiktionary
(nonstandard) The Old Order Amish.
Wiktionary
adjective
Related to Pennsylvania German people, or their language.
Wiktionary
Origin of Pennsylvania Dutch
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From Pennsylvania + Dutch, in the now obsolete sense of "German".
From Wiktionary
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Alteration of German Deutsch German Plattdeutsch
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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