Definitions for pidgin

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pidgin pidg·in

Spelling: [pij-uh n]

IPA: /ˈpɪdʒ ən/

Pidgin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in pidgin (dgiinp).

Definitions for pidgin

noun

1. an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
2. (loosely) any simplified or broken form of a language, especially when used for communication between speakers of different languages.

Origin of pidgin

First recorded in 1875-80; extracted from pidgin English

Examples for pidgin

Attempting to make conversation, the man said in Chinese pidgin, “You likee food?”

And I thought for once that her lapse into pidgin had been deliberate and not accidental.

I was waited on mostly by a lad named Chung, one of the professors of "pidgin."

Jabbering in frantic "pidgin," he proceeded to make front on the Dutchman.

And John scarcely knew a word of English, not even the pidgin variety.

The word pidgin itself is derived through a series of changes in the word Business.

This is not Braithwaite's pidgin but Woodward's and there was no help for it.

Soosie, he told in his pidgin English, had been given to him by her uncle.

But at that moment a head was put out of the companion, and a voice called him in pidgin English to go down.

I had a good one in the upper storey, or the "top-side," as it is expressed in "pidgin."