Example sentences for: pidgin

How can you use “pidgin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But it is Coast Pidgin with which I am most familiar.

  • 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.

  • In Coast Pidgin mud becomes putta-putta and noise becomes wahallah .

  • Lest the national language be eventually supplanted by le sabir atlantique (the Atlantic pidgin), he urged the government to set up a system of penalties to divert the linguistic polluters from the path of sin.

  • 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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