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Meanings of pidgin in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pidgins"
Examples for "pidgins"
1
There are also a few indigenous creoles and pidgins.
2
Pidgins are typically created out of extreme necessity-theyare trade languages, slave languages, refugee languages.
3
Pidgins are article-deficient, conjunction-deprived, and prepositionally challenged.
4
Pidgins are downright hostile to plurals.
Usage of pidgin in English
1
The trouble with pidgin is that you get to thinking in pidgin.
2
To-day, for the first time, we have heard 'pidgin English' seriously spoken.
3
I hope I'm wrong because if I'm right, surely that is pidgin English.
4
Having used all of his pidgin language, he asked a question in Vietnamese.
5
He was no longer trying to speak in his pidgin dialect of Indhopalese.
6
It's a sort of pidgin Zulu - quite primitive compared with genuine Zulu.
7
He spoke to her in pidgin hadal, his clicks and utterances almost impenetrable.
8
Out of it comes a manual pidgin that is becoming formalized.
9
In a month he had a tan, and his pidgin had come back.
10
But she was in no mood for the interchange of remarks in pidgin English.
11
Kate had learned to talk on the island; she spoke pidgin from deep down.
12
And thereupon in tolerable pidgin English he unfolded his tale.
13
David O'Leary's baiting of rival players in pidgin French would not be O'Neill's style.
14
The visiting fisherman and his wife bowed and introduced themselves in thick pidgin English.
15
But you may roam the world over, and you will hear no pidgin German.
16
Solo turns to the Wookiee, who barks and growls and snorts a pidgin translation.
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Translations for pidgin
Spanish
Catalan
Pidgin through the time
Pidgin across language varieties
United States of America
Common