Definitions for pidgins

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pidgins pidg·in

Spelling: [pij-uh n]

IPA: /ˈpɪdʒ ən/

Pidgins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in pidgins (dgiinps).

Definitions for pidgins

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 pidgins

First recorded in 1875-80; extracted from pidgin English

Examples for pidgins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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