pidgin Englishes
pidgin Englishes is the plural of pidgin English.
Meaning of pidgin English
Noun
pidgin English (countable and uncountable, plural pidgin Englishes)
- The Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the Chinese and Southeast Asian coastal region.
- Any English-lexifier pidgin.
- They’ve picked up pidgin-English from the few old regulars I keep about the place and speak it much better than the old hands themselves.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 209
- Any very basic English; broken English.
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- Pidgin Englishes is the plural of pidgin English.
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