Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A simplified form of speech that is usually a mixture of two or more languages, has a rudimentary grammar and vocabulary, is used for communication between groups speaking different languages, and is not spoken as a first or native language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Business; affair; thing.
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- noun linguistics an
amalgamation of twodisparate languages , used by twopopulations having no common language as alingua franca to communicate with each other, lackingformalized grammar and having a small,utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"no got pidgin," and _pidgin English_ simply means a workable knowledge of colloquial English as picked up by tradesmen, servants and coolies, in contradistinction to English as taught in the schools.
Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready
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My Mr. told me that the key to pidgin is to pick out the English words and try to make sense of them.
My First Love princesa 2008
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The story of a Korean uprising told in pidgin poetry.
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The story of a Korean uprising told in pidgin poetry.
SeeLight: 2008
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We gave them worm tablets and would ask them politely, in pidgin English, to collect their fecal matter in buckets for us.
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A pidgin is what you get when you throw people together who have no common language and gramatically its kind of a mess.
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It is difficult to defend an American president who speaks in pidgin-English.
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Anglo used to enroll them in informal classes to learn Fanagolo, a century-old, 200-word pidgin language that was created decades ago so that mining bosses could order illiterate miners to perform basic tasks.
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A pidgin is a simplified language used to help two groups with distinct languages communicate with each other.
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A pidgin is a mashup of two languages A and B used when a speaker of A and a speaker of B want/need to communicate.
uselessness commented on the word pidgin
im in ur langwidge
braking ur grammar
April 24, 2007