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pidgin English
Pidgin English also pidgin Englishn. Any of several pidgins based on English and now spoken mostly on the Pacific islands and in West Africa.
[Alteration of pigeon English, from Pidgin English pigeon, business, perhaps from a Chinese pronunciation of English business.]pidgin English n (Languages) a pidgin in which one of the languages involved is English pidg′in (or Pidg′in) Eng′lish,
n. 1. Chinese Pidgin English. 2. any of various other pidgins with lexicons taken primarily from English, as Bislama and New Guinea Pidgin. [1820–30; pidgin, pigeon < Chinese Pidgin E: business, affair; orig. uncertain] Translations
pidgin English
pidgin English a pidgin in which one of the languages involved is English |