noun [U]
1 a simple form of a language, especially English, Portuguese or Dutch, with a limited number of words, that are used together with words from a local language. It is used when people who do not speak the same language need to talk to each other.
2 (Pidgin) = TOKPISIN
3 ~ English, French, Japanese, etc. a way of speaking a language that uses simple words and forms, used when a person does not speak the language well, or when he or she is talking to sb who does not speak the language well:
I tried to get my message across in my pidgin Italian.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pidgin is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does pidgin appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — pidgin appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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