different between dutch vs sooterkin

English

Clipping of duchess

dutch (plural dutches)

See Dutch.

dutch (third-person singular simple present dutches, present participle dutching, simple past and past participle dutched)

From dialectal Dutch zoeterke(n) (“sweatheart”) (compare zoetje, zoetke (“sweetheart”)), equivalent to sweet +? -kin or soot +? -kin.

sooterkin (plural sooterkins)

A mouse-like creature which, according to folklore, Dutch women who sit over stoves give birth to.
(figuratively) An abortive scheme.
- Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.
(colloquial) A Dutch person. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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