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patois::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular |
| Type of | non-standard speech |
| Has types | street name, rhyming slang |
Examples of patois
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It was sung in French patois by Creoles of African, French and Spanish descent.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Plenty of other British black people speak without resort to Afro-American patois.
From the economist.com
Ads are increasingly appropriating social media patois, Stuart Elliott writes.
From the mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com
If his language was French, he could also speak the patois of working-class Arabs.
From the guardian.co.uk
His English accent creeps into his Western-speak, creating an unusual patois.
From the usatoday.com
What emerged was that each kid gang had developed its own distinctive patois.
From the newscientist.com
The dialect of Dominica also includes Cocoy, along with Creole-French-based patois.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Tristan da Cunha's isolation has led to an unusual, patois-like dialect of English.
From the en.wikipedia.org
French and a Creole patois with an important European and Indian active population.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Slang: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
- A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard
- Patois (pl.) is any language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. It can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects, and other forms of native or local speech, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant. ...
- A regional dialect, especially without a literary tradition
- A regional dialect. Several dialects of American English could be considered examples; the distinctive New Orleans dialect is a patois.
- The form of English spoken by people throughout the English-speaking Caribbean. In contrast to the Queen's English, which is used on radio, television, and in official communications, patois (pronounced "potwah") is the voice of a people subtly resisting the crown and making language reflect ...
