pigeon English

Noun

pidgin English (countable and uncountable, plural pidgin Englishes)

1. (originally) The Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the Chinese and Southeast Asian coastal region.
2. 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
3. (broadly) Any very basic English; broken English.