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Originally Posted by euromodder
Dutch immigrant region ?
Holle weg is the Dutch term for a hollow road.
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I believe the dominant settlers in this area were Scottish/Irish and German. The Dutch generally stopped migration several hundred miles north of here, more in Pennsylvania than Virginia and further south. Still, there is no reason to think that the Dutch linguistic influence couldn't have extended a good deal further than the primary settlement areas. It could indeed be derived from "Holle weg."
Taking the source with a grain of salt, the Urban Dictionary states that it is derived from the word "hollow." Still, the similarity of the Dutch would lead me to think that the English and Dutch terms both have a similar Germanic root that was native to Northern Europe and spread westward with the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Danes, or other previous tribes. Words descriptive of landscape features would certainly travel with the people who used them.