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▪ I. Hinglish, n.2 and a.2 colloq. (freq. depreciative).
Brit. |ˈhɪŋglɪʃ|, U.S. |ˈhɪŋ(g)lɪʃ|
Forms: 19– Hinglish, 19– Hindlish[rare]
[Blend of Hindi n. and English n. Compare earlier Chinglish n., Japlish n., Spanglish n., etc.]
A. n. Esp. in India: a mixture of Hindi and English; esp. a variety of English used by speakers of Hindi (or in a bilingual Hindi and English context), characterized by frequent use of Hindi vocabulary or constructions.
1967N.Y. Times 27 Aug. i. 22 A new spoken language, humorously called Hinglish, is gaining ground in India. 1989Guardian (Nexis) 20 Mar. Hinglish, the glorious jumble of good, bad and ugly English used in the subcontinent. 1993Times 11 Dec. 13/4 Hinglish is officially regarded as vulgar. It is therefore never used for news broadcasts on the state television station. 2002Elle Feb. 52/2 Relatives fly in from Britain, the U.S., and Australia, and they speak English more often than Hindi, as well as what Indian journalists call ‘Hinglish’, a breezy melding of both.
B. adj. Containing elements of Hindi and English language or culture; expressed in Hinglish; (also) designating a word, expression, etc., that is borrowed from Hindi into English or from English into Hindi.
1967N.Y. Times 27 Aug. i. 22 (heading) Hinglish sentences combine 2 worlds for Hindi speakers. 1993Times 11 Dec. 13/7 Philips..launched an advertising campaign before last month's Diwali (festival of light) celebrations..with the Hinglish slogan: ‘A whole new kind of phataaka’. Phataaka is a firecracker. 1995P. Lutgendorf in L. A. Babb & S. S. Wadley Media & Transformation of Relig. in S. Asia ix. 221 Though official parlance blessed such efforts with the newly coined Sanskritic genre name dhārāvāhik (‘serialization’), the Hinglish word sīriyal effortlessly entered popular speech. 1999India-West (Nexis) 16 Apr. 6 Distributor Shravan Shroff..distributed off-beat and Hinglish films like Fire and Hyderabad Blues.
▪ II. Hinglish, a.1 and n.1 In representations or (usually humorous or patronizing) imitations of a hypercorrect pronunciation, esp. by non-native speakers.
Brit. |ˈhɪŋglɪʃ|, U.S. |ˈhɪŋ(g)lɪʃ|
Forms: 18– Henglish, 18– Hinglish
[Representing a hypercorrect pronunciation English adj. and n.]
A. adj. English.
1812M. Edgeworth Absentee i, in Tales Fashionable Life V. 204 She could not be five minutes in your grace's company before she would tell you, that she was Henglish, born in Hoxfordshire. 1865D. Boucicault Arrah-Na-Pogue iii. i, Greenwich, my lord; its a good Hinglish watch. 1901G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion i, in Compl. Plays (1931) 299 Lawk as a Hinglish lidy mawt call er little boy Birdie. 1997‘Q’ Deadmeat 208 Ah jus hope ah di Japanese version ah Tekkan. Di Henglish version tu slow.
B. n. The English language; (with the) English people as a class.
1828‘W. T. Moncrieff’ Tom & Jerry ii. v. 53 Drink, vill you? don't you understand Hinglish? 1868C. H. Haeseler Across Atlantic viii. 129 An old English lady, with a strong cockney accent..broke in with the rapturous declaration, that it was ‘very jolly to 'ear 'ow well a Hamerican can speak Hinglish’. 1929D. H. Lawrence Compl. Poems (1964) 434 All the hinglish is gentlemen an' lidies. 1995G. Stern Odd Mercy 27 I'll speak Hinglish now. |