pidgin English

noun
/ˈpɪ.dʒɪn ˌɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/UK/ˈpɪ.dʒən ˌɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/US

Definitions

  1. The Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the…

    The Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the Chinese and Southeast Asian coastal region.

  2. Any English-lexifier pidgin.

    • They’ve picked up pidgin-English from the few old regulars I keep about the place and speak it much better than the old hands themselves.
  3. Any very basic English

    Any very basic English; broken English.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for 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