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Chinese pidgin English

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Definitions

  1. An English-lexifier pidgin used along the Chinese coast from the 17th to the 19th…

    An English-lexifier pidgin used along the Chinese coast from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

    • The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y, though perhaps owes something to the pre-existing British English diminutive of miss.

  2. An English-based pidgin formerly spoken in Guangzhou and other ports in China.

    • Of the Chinese material (3.1% of total senses), there are 27 Chinese Pidgin English terms, including chin-chin, a salutation; chop, a stamp or seal; chop-chop, a command for greater speed; and joss, an idol or god.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Chinese pidgin English. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA