Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abele | the white poplar tree. [Du. abeel, ult, from L. albus, white]. |
| advocaat | a liqueur containing rum and raw eggs. |
| bilander bylander | a two-masted cargo vessel used in Holland. |
| blunderbuss | an old-fashioned gun. [Du. donder, thunder, + bus, tube, gun; changed by association with blunder]. |
| boodle | counterfeit money; funds obtained by corruption; (verb) to take bribes. |
| borecole | kale. [Du. boerenkool, peasant's cabbage]. |
| bortz bort boart | a low quality diamond. [Du. boort]. |
| brool | a deep murmur. [Du. brullen, to roar]. |
| burgomaster | the mayor of a Dutch or Flemish town. [Du. burgemeester]. |
| caboose | a kitchen on the deck of a ship. |
| cockateel cockatiel | a small crested parrot of Australia. |
| coehorn cohorn | a small mortar for throwing grenades. [f. Menno, Baron van Coehoorn (1641—1704), Dutch soldier and military engineer]. |
| coleslaw | a salad made of sliced cabbage. [Du. koolsla, from kool + sla]. |
| colza | a variety of cabbage cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes. [Dutch koolzaad, cabbage seed]. |
| cruller kruller | in N. America, a type of sweet cake fried in fat. |
| dewitt | to lynch. [From the surname of two brothers, John and Cornelius De Witt, opponents of William III, who were lynched by a mob in 1672]. |
| distelfink | a traditional Pennsylvanian Dutch design motif in the form of a stylised bird. |
| dogger | a two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. |
| doggerman | a sailor belonging to a DOGGER, a two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. |
| doit doitkin duit dodkin | an old Dutch coin of little value. |
| droger drogher | a small craft used in the West Indies to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber droger. |
| dwang | a piece of timber used to reinforce joists, a strut. [Du. dwang, force, constraint]. |
| eland | a large African antelope with spiral horns. |
| euphroe uphroe | a block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up. [Du. jeffrouw, from jong, young + vrouw, woman]. |
| filibuster | orig. a plunderer; a freebooter; also, one who obstructs legislation by making long speeches; (verb) to make such speeches. [Du. vrijbuiter, freebooter]. |
| fluyt | a small 17th century merchant ship. |
| freebooter | a plunderer, a pirate. [Du. vrijbuiter]. |
| frow vrow vrouw | a woman, goodwife. |
| garboard | a plank on a ship's bottom next to the keel. [Du. gaarboord]. |
| gherkin girkin | a kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles. |
| guilder gulden | a Dutch monetary unit, a silver coin worth about forty cents. |
| houting | a European food fish with white flesh. |
| howitzer | a short relatively light gun for the high-angle firing of shells at a low velocity. [Du. houwitser f. Ger. Haubitze]. |
| impolder empolder | to make a POLDER of. |
| isinglass | the dried bladder of certain fish, especially the sturgeon, used e.g. to clarify wines. [Du. huizenblas, sturgeon-bladder]. |
| keeshond | a medium-size dog of the spitz type. Pl. KEESHONDS or KEESHONDEN. |
| kermess kermis kirmess | in Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, an outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined. |
| kermesse | a cycle race held in an urban area. |
| klinker | a very hard paving brick. Also CLINKER. |
| koff | a small Dutch sailing vessel. |
| koker | in Guyana, a sluice-gate. |
| korfball | a basketball-like game played between two teams of six men and six women each. [Du. korf, basket]. |
| krang kreng | the carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. |
| landloper | a wanderer, a vagabond. [Du. landlooper, from land + lopen, to run]. |
| laveer | to sail against the wind. |
| leguaan leguan | a large S. African lizard. |
| lispound | a varying weight, 12 to 34 pounds, used in the Baltic countries and Orkney and Shetland. |
| maelstrom | a powerful whirlpool. |
| mahlstick malstick maulstick | a stick used by painters to steady the hand. [Du. malen, to paint, + stok, stick]. |
| mallemuck mollymawk | a kind of albatross. [Du. mallemok, f. mal foolish + mok gull]. |
| matross | an artillery soldier next in rank below a gunner. [Du. matroos, apparently from French matelot, a sailor]. |
| meercat meerkat | a S. African carnivore, the SURICATE, related to the ICHNEUMON. |
| meneer mynheer mijnheer | the Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir; hence, a Dutchman. |
| minikin | a little darling; a favorite; a minion. [Du. minneken, f. minne love]. |
| morgen | a unit of land area slightly more than two acres. |
| mossbunker | an oily fish of the herring family, aka MENHADEN. [Du. marsbanker]. |
| muid | a Dutch or (now esp.) South African dry measure of capacity equal to approx. 117 litres (3.22 bushels). |
| olycook olykoek olicook | a kind of American doughnut. |
| orlop | the lowest deck of a ship having four or more decks. [Du. overloop, covering]. |
| paal | in the Caribbean, a stake driven into the ground. |
| palsgrave | a count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany. |
| palstaff palstave | a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the Bronze Age. |
| patroon | a ship's captain; a holder of a grant of land from the Dutch governor of New York. |
| polder | an area of low-lying land reclaimed from a body of water (esp. in the Netherlands); (verb) to reclaim low-lying land. |
| poppycock | nonsense. [Du. pappekak, soft dung]. |
| pram praam | a flat-bottomed boat or lighter, used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war. |
| prad | (sl.) a horse. [By metathesis from Dutch paard, horse.] |
| predikant | a Dutch reformed preacher, esp. in S. Africa. Cf. PREDICANT. |
| pomelo pompelo pumelo pummelo pompelmoose pampelmoose pampelmouse pompelmous pompelmouse | the shaddock or grapefruit. |
| quacksalver | a quack, a charlatan. [From obsolete Dutch (now kwakzalver), from quack (boast) + salve (ointment).] |
| reistafel rijstafel | an Indonesian rice dish. [Du. rijs, rice, + tafel, table]. |
| rigsdaler | a small Dutch silver coin. |
| roemer rummer | a large drinking-glass. |
| rutter | a horseman or trooper; a book of sailing directions. |
| schiedam | Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands. |
| schilling | any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents. |
| schipperke | a small black Belgian canal-boat dog. |
| schout | a municipal officer. |
| schuit | a Dutch flat-bottomed boat, used along canals and round the coast. |
| slenter slinter | (Aus. coll) a dodge, a trick. |
| snoek | a S. African fish, aka BARRACOUTA. [Dutch snoek, pike]. |
| sooterkin | a kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme. |
| specksioneer specktioneer | the chief harpooner on a whaler, who directs the flensing of the whale. [Du. speck, fat meat, + snijden, to cut]. |
| stadholder stadtholder | a Dutch viceroy or provincial governor. |
| stiver stuiver | a Dutch coin worth a penny or two; something of little value. |
| stoep | a platform along the front, and sometimes the side, of a house. |
| suricate | a S. African carnivore, aka MEERKAT, related to the ICHNEUMON. [Du. surikat]. |
| taffarel tafferel taffrail | the rail round the stern of a ship. [Du. taffereel panel, picture, dim. of tafel table]. |
| tarras terras trass | an earthy volcanic tuff used as a hydraulic cement. |
| vendue | a public sale; an auction. |
| verquere verquire | an obsolete form of backgammon. |
| walrus | a large aquatic carnivorous mammal. |
| wamus wammus wampus | a kind of cardigan or strong jacket buttoned at the neck or wrists. |
| weakfish | a kind of fish caught off the Atlantic coast of North America, aka sea trout. [Du. weekvisch, f. week soft + visch fish]. |
| wentletrap | any of a genus of gasteropod molluscs, having a spiral shell with many deep whorls. [Du. 'spiral staircase']. |
| witloof | a kind of chicory with white leaves. [Du. wit, white, + loof, leaf]. |
| woonerf | a road in the Netherlands primarily for bicyclists and pedestrians. |