pidgin
pronunciation
How to pronounce pidgin in British English:
UK [ˈpɪdʒɪn]
How to pronounce pidgin in American English:
US [ˈpɪdʒən]
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- Noun:
- an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
Word Origin
- pidgin
- pidgin: [19] A pidgin is a reduced form of language used for communication between speech communities which do not share the same native language. A characteristic of such languages is that words in the base language from which the pidgin evolved become altered. And this is how the word pidgin itself arose. It comes from pidgin English, an alteration of business English in the commercial pidgin used in Far Eastern ports in the mid-19th century.=> business
- pidgin (n.)
- 1876, from pigeon English (1859), the reduced form of the language used in China for communication with Europeans, from pigeon (1826), itself a pidgin word, representing a Chinese pronunciation of business. Meaning extended 1891 to "any simplified language."
Example
- 1. He come quick ? She asked in pidgin english .
- 2. They were using pidgin english to make themselves understood .
- 3. Some apps to check out are openoffice.org portable , pidgin portable and filezilla portable .
- 4. Zephyr pidgin is free software .
- 5. He speaks the pidgin english .