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Word | Patois |
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); they don't speak our lingo / a regional dialect of a language (especially French) / A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes / local or provincial dialect / the dialect of the common people of a region, differing in various respects from the standard language of the rest of the country. / a form of a language that is spoken only in a particular area and that is different from the main form of the same language, | |
Usage | ⇒ His years of study of the language at the university did not enable him to understand the patois of the natives. ⇒ the medical patois that the hospital staffers used among themselves was incomprehensible to me ⇒ the nurse talked to me in a patois that even Italians would have had difficulty in understanding |
Synonyms | argot, dialect, jargon, vernacular, lingo, idiom, cant, slang, language, tongue, parlance, speech, talk, Creole, patter, localism, pidgin, provincialism, gibberish, gobbledygook, |
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