| English | Dutch | Meaning (if different) |
|---|---|---|
| ahoy | hoi | hello |
| apartheid | apartheid | (via Afrikaans) |
| berm | berm | |
| to bluff | bluffen | to brag |
| boom | boom | tree |
| boss | baas | |
| brandy/ brandy wine | brandewijn | lit. burn wine |
| bundle | bundel | |
| buoy | boei | shackle or buoy |
| to cackle | kakelen | |
| coleslaw | koolsla | |
| cookie | koekje | |
| cruise | (door)kruisen | to cross paths or to cross |
| deck | dek | |
| (boat)dock | dok | |
| to drill | drillen | |
| dike, dyke | dijk | wall to prevent flooding |
| easel | ezel | or. donkey |
| to etch | etsen | |
| (to) filibuster | vrijbuiter | from Spanish filibustero --> French filibustier --> Dutch vrijbuiter, pirate |
| freebooter | vrijbuiter | |
| freight | vracht | |
| frolic | vrolijk | cheerful, gay |
| furlough | verlof | permission (to leave) |
| gas | gas | Neologism from Christiaan Huygens, derived from the Greek "Kaos" |
| gin | genever | |
| to grab | grijpen | to seize, to grasp, to snatch |
| guild | gilde | precursor to unions |
| halibut | heilbot | lit. holy flounder |
| to hoist | hijsen | |
| holster | holster | |
| Hottentot | Hottentot | |
| keel | kiel | |
| to keelhaul | kielhalen | lit. to haul keel |
| knapsack | knapzak | lit. bag of food |
| landscape | landschap | |
| leak | lek | |
| lottery | loterij | |
| maelstrom | maalstroom | |
| manekin | manneken | lit. small man |
| measles | mazelen | |
| morass | moeras | |
| offal | afval | lit. "that which falls off" |
| pump | pomp | |
| quack | kwakzalver | lit. someone who daubs ointments |
| roster | rooster | schedule, or. grating |
| to rove | roven | to rob |
| rucksack | rugzak | lit. back-bag |
| Santa Claus | Sinterklaas | Saint Nicholas |
| scow | schouw | |
| skate, to skate | schaats, schaatsen | |
| sketch | schets | |
| skipper | schipper | lit. shipper |
| sled, sleigh | slede, slee | |
| sloop | sloep | |
| to slurp | slurpen | |
| smack | smak | |
| to smelt | smelten | to melt |
| to smuggle | smokkelen | |
| snuff | snuiftabak | lit. sniff tobacco |
| splinter | splinter | |
| to split | splijten | |
| spook | spook | ghost(ly image) |
| to stoke | stoken | stoke a fire |
| stoop | stoep | pavement/sidewalk |
| stove | stoof | |
| waffle | wafel | |
| wagon | wagen | cart, carriage, wagon |
| yacht | jacht | or. hunt |
| yankee | Jan Kees | Personal name, originally used mockingly to describe pro-French revolutionary citizens, with allusion to the small keeshond dog, then for "colonials" in New Amsterdam) |
lit.: the literal meaning of the Dutch word (the actual meaning is similar to the English one)
or.: the word originally had the meaning specified, but is in Dutch also used with the same meaning as in English