double Dutch

Meaning

Noun

• Incomprehensible language.
• A language game akin to pig Latin.
• A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
• Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time.

Related

Similar words

• all Greek to me
• gibberish
• gobbledygook
• nonsense

Origin

• double + Dutch.
• For sense 1: Dutch (which historically had a wider meaning) as a foreign language was not easily understood, so anything completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. Sense 2 expands on this meaning.