Dutch boy

From Dutch Boy Paint, a US brand whose trademark displays this hairstyle.

Dutch boy (plural Dutch boys)

1. A type of bob haircut cut horizontally above the neck with straight bangs.

   Synonyms: Dutch bob, Dutch cut

   • 2005, Christina Bartolomeo, Snowed In: A Novel:

     I'd remembered Ann as a wiry young woman with protruding, river green eyes and lank brown hair in a Dutch boy bob.

   • 2010, Christopher Hopkins, Staging Your Comeback:

     Do not cut horizontally unless you're going for the Dutch Boy look.

   • 2013, Felicia Lowenstein Niven, Fabulous Fashions of the 1920s, page 12:

     The Dutch boy required very straight hair.

From a play on the double meaning of dike, referring both to embankments and masculine lesbians, in the tale of The Little Dutch Boy who sticks a finger into one.

Dutch boy (plural Dutch boys)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (uncommon, slang, often humorous) A man who desires the company of lesbians.

   Synonyms: dyke tyke, lesbro

   Coordinate terms: fag hag, fag stag, fruit fly

   • 1992 October 25, Thomas A. Dennis, “What really happened in Austin : -)”, in alt.angst‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The only clique that I felt even slightly at home with was a group of dykes in my dorm; maybe I'm just a closet dutch boy, but they were about ten times as interesting as anyone else around […] .

   • 1997 January 13, Bob Alberti, “Why Xena is not (yet) a lesbian”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[2] (Usenet):

     It's more profitable to the networks for her to remain heterosexual. Now if a certain level of sexual tension between she and the Redheaded Goddess Gabby will draw in the Riot Grrrl and Dutch Boy audiences, then Xena can have a certain bi-curious ambiance.

   • 2009 December 11, Heather Hogan, “Lesbians steal more than the scene on “Accidentally on Purpose””, in afterellen.com‎^[3]:

     Dani: Well, I don’t know them at all, but I heard those two are into Dutch Boys. That’s what we call a lesbian couple that wants to hook-up with a straight man. C’mon, I’ll be your Wing-Lesbo.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dutch boy.

• “Dutch boy”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “Dutch boy”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.