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pidgin

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Definition of pidgin

as in idiom

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Recent Examples of pidgin Epstein’s pidgin writing style, paired with his name-dropping and vagueness, makes emails like this excellent fodder for both speculation and genuine concern. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025 Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect. — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025 Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese. — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024 The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pidgin

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Noun

Holden Caulfield is made to tell his own story, in his own strange idiom.

— Book Marks, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Please put on your batteries — a Mexican Spanish idiom that means to cowboy up.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of idiom

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Both Drake and Lütke rejected Canadian smallness, the reflex that says our cities are minor markets, our companies are acquisition targets, and our culture is a regional dialect of America's.

— Kumaran Nadesan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Mandarin is the language of formal schooling in China since middle school, and the result, as Li describes it, is a generation that speaks its ancestral dialect with growing unfamiliarity.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 July 2026

Definition of dialect

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Fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic number at around seventy thousand at most, and the great majority of those who use it as their vernacular are elderly.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Among other things, the 1960s meetings known as Vatican II revolutionized the church’s relations with other Christians, Jews and people of other faiths and allowed Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.

— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of vernacular

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In Warsh’s parlance, the market was playing the referee, not the ball.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Had Marsh taken that step — known in legal parlance as striking Basabe’s affirmative defenses — the jury would have only had to determine monetary damages against Basabe on each count, skipping the step of deciding whether to hold Basabe liable.

— Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

Definition of parlance

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In truth, plenty of New Yorkers are both privileged and come from elsewhere, but still fall into the rhythm and the patois that has long defined the city.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
That’s for sure when people speak patois, a vernacular version of English that’s based on a culture’s intonation.

— Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 4 June 2026

Definition of patois

Noun

Kerr, for example, questioned Valdez’s command of English given his use of Caló, a culturally specific dialect that blends Mexican Spanish slang with English.

— Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 16 July 2026
Their influence stretched beyond music into fashion, dance trends and slang, and as member Pimpin' noted, fans are still doing the group's signature dance more than two decades later, something a SeaWorld whale recently proved.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 23 June 2026

Definition of slang

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The concept of critical regionalism may seem like a poor fit for New York, that proud engine of globalism, crucible of efficiency, and maximizer of revenue.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2026
Just don’t let the deniers know that regionalism and sustainability are essentially one and the same.

— Richard Olsen, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

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