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pidginise

pidginise is the alternative form of pidginize.

Meaning of pidginize

Verb

pidginize (third-person singular simple present pidginizes, present participle pidginizing, simple past and past participle pidginized)

  1. (transitive) To convert or adapt into a pidgin language.

Forms of pidginise

third-person singular presentpidginises
present participlepidginising
past participlepidginised
pastpidginised

Questions about pidginise

What is pidginise the alternative form of?
Pidginise is the alternative form of pidginize.

Words near pidginise in the dictionary

  1. pidgin Englishes
  2. Pidgin Signed English
  3. pidging
  4. pidginisation
  5. pidginisations
  6. pidginise
  7. pidginised
  8. pidginises
  9. pidginising
  10. pidginist
  11. pidginists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pidginise (page history and authors); pidginize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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