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 .

  • 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.

  • It was from one of those missionaries that I obtained a copy of Genesis in pidgin English.

  • One's outrage over some disastrous contretemps is alleviated somewhat by the culprit's risible attempts to explain away the circumstances of his crime in pidgin.

  • It refers to His vulgar vocabulary and facility in slang, but—more important—it offers oddities like a reference to learning by rote on page 105 and to Pidgin on page 41: upon looking both up, I found nothing about rote learning on page 105 and nothing about Pidgin on page 41; nor was either listed in the sparse index.


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