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Hans in kelder
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English
Etymology
From en nl Hans nl in nl kelder Hans in the cellar.
Noun
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en obsolete An unborn child. 17th–18th c.
en 1640 w:Richard Brome Sparagus Garden Come here's a health to the Hans in Kelder, and the mother of the boy, if it prove so.
I When his companions drank to the Hans en kelderr, or Jack in the low cellar, he could not help displaying an extraordinary complacence of countenance . 10