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patois

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Synonyms and Antonyms of patois

the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

the medical patois that the hospital staffers used among themselves was incomprehensible to me

Synonyms of patois

argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, terminology, vocabulary

Words Related to patois

colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism

bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble

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