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prepidgins

prepidgins is the plural of prepidgin.

Meaning of prepidgin

Noun

prepidgin (plural prepidgins)

  1. An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
    • An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, page 383

Questions about prepidgins

What is prepidgins the plural of?
Prepidgins is the plural of prepidgin.

Words near prepidgins in the dictionary

  1. prephotographic
  2. prephthisical
  3. prephylogenetic
  4. prepicked
  5. prepidgin
  6. prepidgins
  7. prepilin
  8. prepilin peptidase
  9. prepilin peptidases
  10. prepilins
  11. prepill

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