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pidgin

/pij-uhn/US // ˈpɪdʒ ən //UK // (ˈpɪdʒɪn) //

皮钦语,皮尔金语,皮金语,皮钦人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
    • : any simplified or broken form of a language, especially when used for communication between speakers of different languages.

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Examples

  • Attempting to make conversation, the man said in Chinese pidgin, “You likee food?”

  • Dawkins had not been an hour in master's company before he knew that he had a pidgin to pluck.

  • Blewitt knew this too: and bein very fond of pidgin, intended to keep this one entirely to himself.

  • My boy Arigita had often eaten human meat, and as he expressed it in his quaint pidgin English, “Pig no good, man he very good.”

  • South of that river the coast tribes speak largely pidgin English.

  • Their sole endeavour was to raise their position: sich considerable machen, as the Great Elector said in his quaint pidgin German.