patois

/pat-wah, pah-twah; French pa-twa/US // ˈpæt wɑ, ˈpɑ twɑ; French paˈtwa //UK // (ˈpætwɑː, French patwa) //

土语,土话,行语,行话

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n.名词 noun

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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.

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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.