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Example sentences for: pidgin
How can you use “pidgin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It is not the source of billy , a Scottish dialect word for a milk pail, nor does it have anything to do with the Queensland Aboriginal word bung dead, which passed into Australian pidgin in the 1840s and which developed by the 1880s the application bankrupt, as in the bank's gone bung .
They are promptly exported across the Atlantic, so that all Britain now speaks pidgin German.
I have rarely known a situation so bad that a few words of pidgin could not make it seem a little brighter.
But in the Sydney language only, its familiarity to English ears being the result of its taking on in Australian pidgin as a term of approbation from as early as 1790.
Australian pidgin acquired a second negative, borak , used as an alternative to baal or in a figurative sense for humbug, nonsense, or rubbish, from Wathawurung, whence came also an exclamation merrygig well done and coolie , a derogatory term for a person who partnered an Aboriginal woman.
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