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.


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