pidgin

/pij-uhn/US // ˈpɪdʒ ən //UK // (ˈpɪdʒɪn) //

皮钦语,皮尔金语,皮金语,皮钦人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
- : any simplified or broken form of a language, especially when used for communication between speakers of different languages.

as inslang

Synonyms

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.

/pij-uhn/US // ˈpɪdʒ ən //UK // (ˈpɪdʒɪn) //

皮钦语,皮尔金语,皮金语,皮钦人

n.名词 noun

1
- : an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
- : any simplified or broken form of a language, especially when used for communication between speakers of different languages.

as inslang

Synonyms

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.