Words similar to pidgin
Example sentences for: pidgin
How can you use “pidgin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The most publicized is probably Tok Pisin, the pidgin of Papua New Guinea.
Words like gammon and piccaninny , from English slang and African pidgin respectively, joined a range of Port Jackson words to form a pidgin in which limited communication was possible.
The language even reflects this, for the Pidgin word for `birthday' is Krismas.
The Pidgin word tok by itself means “talk” and its synonyms, in both verb and noun forms.
From Yagara come bung broken, dead, yacka , both as a noun and a verb meaning work, and yohi , an affirmative, all originally in pidgin.