patois 的定义
plural pat·ois [pat-wahz, pah-twahz; French pa-twa]. /ˈpæt wɑz, ˈpɑ twɑz; French paˈtwa/.
- a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- a rural or provincial form of speech.
- jargon; cant; argot.
patois 近义词
jargon
更多patois例句
- Rapping in his hometown patois, Roiall brings that authenticity to his videos “Nobody” and “Soda,” which was shot at Half Way Tree in Jamaica.
- She talks like her daughter now; everyone does, in that speedy, all-knowing, wisecrack-spattered sitcom patois of Modern Family.
- Biderman, who has an amazing ear for dialogue and verbal cues, has the Hollywood patois down pat.
- The patois of Saint-Rémy has been developed and expanded into a beautiful literary language.
- Jasmin had already shown the Parisians that real poetry of a high order could be written in a patois.
- He sympathizes with every attempt, wherever made, the world over, to raise up a patois into a language.
- So that the Provençal language, in spite of everything, keeps a certain patois vulgarity.
- Some of the hay-makers called to me, but in such barbarous patois, that I could make nothing of them.