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Meanings of pidgins in English

Russian
пиджин
Portuguese
língua de contacto
Spanish
pidgin
Catalan
pidgin

Simplified language.

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        Examples for "pidgin"
        Examples for "pidgin"
        1
        The trouble with pidgin is that you get to thinking in pidgin.
        East of eden
        2
        To-day, for the first time, we have heard 'pidgin English' seriously spoken.
        A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Mont...
        3
        I hope I'm wrong because if I'm right, surely that is pidgin English.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Having used all of his pidgin language, he asked a question in Vietnamese.
        Gods go begging
        5
        He was no longer trying to speak in his pidgin dialect of Indhopalese.
        Wizardborn
        Usage of pidgins in English
        1
        There are also a few indigenous creoles and pidgins.
        The South African
        2
        Pidgins are typically created out of extreme necessity-theyare trade languages, slave languages, refugee languages.
        Wired
        3
        Pidgins are article-deficient, conjunction-deprived, and prepositionally challenged.
        Wired
        4
        Pidgins are downright hostile to plurals.
        Wired
        Translations for pidgins
        Pidgins through the time