| 单词 | patois |
| 释义 | patois (once / 6644 pages) n The noun patois describes the way you talk, like the patois of New Englanders who tend to drop the letter r: "Drive yah cah to Hahvahd Yahd," while others say, "Drive your car to Harvard Yard." Patois, which rhymes with "voilà," is speech used in a particular region, profession, or group. It is a French word that originated as "rough speech." Examples of patois are found in every region of the world, but perhaps the most famous is Jamaican. "Ah wha dat yuh ah luok pan?," is Jamaican patois for, "What’s that you’re looking at?" Patois is also the "jargon" or "lingo" used by a group, such as musicians whose patois is lost on non-musicians. WORD FAMILYpatois: patoises USAGE EXAMPLESBut imagine a situation in which New Yorkers were told that their particular patois was "backwards" or "not to be encouraged". New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) Nobody knows her way around a patois or a flat A quite like Sarah Jones. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) We’ve had so much innovation, it’s hard to realize how totally out of the box it was for a crab to start singing in patois. Los Angeles Times(Nov 22, 2016) 1n a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard Hyper accent, dialect, idiom the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people 2n a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) Syn|Hypo|Hyper argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular street name slang for something (especially for an illegal drug) rhyming slangslang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component non-standard speech speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
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