List of English words of Dutch origin This is a list of words of Dutch language origins can be found in the following English language cognates. However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Low Saxon equivalents instead or as well. literally: the literal meaning of the Dutch word (the actual meaning is similar to the English one) originally: the word originally had the meaning specified, but is in Dutch also used with the same meaning as in English aardvark : from aardvarken ahoy : from hoi (="hello") apartheid : from apartheid (via Afrikaans) berm : from berm to bluff : from bluffen (="to brag") boom : from boom (="tree") boss : from baas brandy/ brandy wine : from brandewijn (=literally "burn wine") bundle : from Old Dutch bondel buoy : from boei (="shackle" or "buoy") candy : from kandij coleslaw : from koolsla cookie : from koekje cruise : from (door)kruisen (="to cross paths or to cross") deck : from dek ="covering" (entered English as "the cover over a ship's hold") dyke : from dijk (boat) dock : possibly from Middle Dutch from dok drill : from Middle Dutch dril, drille easel : from ezel (=originally "donkey") etch : from etsen filibuster : from Spanish filibustero from French filibustier from Dutch vrijbuiter (="pirate") freebooter : from vrijbuiter freight : from vracht frolic : from vrolijk (="cheerful, gay") furlough : from verlof (="permission (to leave)") gas : from gas, a neologism from Christiaan Huygens, derived from the Greek Chaos gin : from jenever grab : from grijpen (="to seize, to grasp, to snatch") halibut : from heilbot (=literally "holy flounder") hoist : possibly from Middle Dutch hijsen holster : from holster Hottentot : from Hottentot iceberg : probably from ijsberg, from Danish isbjerg or Swedish isberg. keel (kind of boat) : from kiel keelhaul : from kielhalen (=literally "to haul keel") knapsack : possibly from knapzak (=literally "bag of food") landscape : from landschap leak : possibly from Old Dutch lek lottery : from Middle French loterie, possibly from Dutch loterij maelstrom : from maalstroom maid : from meid (="girl") manikin : from mannekijn (=literally "little man") measles : possibly from mazelen morass : from moeras polder : from polder pump : from pomp quack : shortened from quacksalver, from kwakzalver (= literally "someone who daubs ointments") roster : from rooster (="schedule, or. grating") to rove : from roven (="to rob") rucksack : from rugzak (=literally "back-bag") Santa Claus : from Sinterklaas (="Saint Nicholas") scow : from schouw skate, to skate : from schaats. The noun was originally adopted as in Dutch, with 'skates' being the singular form of the noun; due to the similarity to regular English plurals this form was ultimately used as the plural while 'skate' was derived for use as singular." sketch : from schets skipper : from schipper (=literally "shipper") snack : from snakken (="to gasp", originally "to eat") sled, sleigh : from Middle Dutch slede, slee sloop : from sloep slurp : from slurpen smack : possibly from smak smelt : from smelten (="to melt") smuggle : from smokkelen tattoo (military term) : from taptoe (=literally "close the tap") snuff : from snuiftabak (=literally "sniff tobacco") splinter : from splinter split : from splijten spook : from spook (="ghost(ly image)") stoke : from stoken (="stoke a fire") stoop (steps) : from stoep (="pavement/sidewalk") stove : from stoof waffle : from wafel wagon : from wagen (="cart, carriage, wagon") yacht : from jacht (=originally "hunt") yankee : from Jan Kees, a personal name, originally used mockingly to describe pro-French revolutionary citizens, with allusion to the small keeshond dog, then for "colonials" in New Amsterdam) (Note: this is not the only possible etymology for the word yankee. 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