Synonyms of patois

patois

noun

as in dialect

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 & Similar Words

• dialect
• terminology
• vocabulary
• language
• slang
• argot
• idiom
• jargon
• lingo
• jive
• patter
• shoptalk
• vernacular
• pidgin
• colloquial
• colloquialism
• parlance
• shop
• regionalism
• cant
• speech
• localism
• provincialism
• journalese
• slanguage
• vernacularism
• bureaucratese
• computerese
• governmentese
• technobabble
• educationese
• cyberspeak