baragouin
noun/ˈbæɹəɡwæ̃/UK/ˈbæɹəɡwæn/US
Etymology
Borrowed from French baragouin (“unintelligible speech or writing”).
- borrowed from baragouin
Definitions
A pidgin.
- She spoke the rude French of the fishing villages, where the language lives chiefly as a baragouin, mingled often with words and forms belonging to many other tongues.
- [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau remained contemptuously aloof and described the language of [John] Milton as a terrible baragouin, too rude for his polite ears to decipher.
Unintelligible speech
Unintelligible speech; gibberish, jargon.
- I am sick of signals and ciphers and secret meetings and such baragouin.
- French people of any social standing looked at the Breton language as baragouin. It was (and still is) very easy for Bretons to get the idea that Breton is a “little language” of the “past,” not worth the effort of learning.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for baragouin. 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