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pidgin

noun as in slang

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Example Sentences

Attempting to make conversation, the man said in Chinese pidgin, “You likee food?”

Dawkins had not been an hour in master's company before he knew that he had a pidgin to pluck.

Blewitt knew this too: and bein very fond of pidgin, intended to keep this one entirely to himself.

My boy Arigita had often eaten human meat, and as he expressed it in his quaint pidgin English, “Pig no good, man he very good.”

South of that river the coast tribes speak largely pidgin English.

Their sole endeavour was to raise their position: sich considerable machen, as the Great Elector said in his quaint pidgin German.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pidgin, such as: argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, and cant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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