Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - pidgin
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1. Pidgin is a simple form of a language which speakers of a different language use to communicate. Pidgin is not anyone’s first language. He’s at ease speaking pidgin with the factory workers and guys on the docks. N-VAR 2. If someone is speaking their own language simply or another language badly and is trying to communicate, you can say that they are speaking, for example, pidgin English or pidgin Italian. The restaurant owner could only speak pidgin English. ADJ: ADJ n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: ~ English Date: 1876 a simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages • ~ization noun • ~ize transitive verb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. a simplified language containing vocabulary from two or more languages, used for communication between people not having a common language. Phrases and idioms pidgin English a pidgin in which the chief language is English, used orig. between Chinese and Europeans. Etymology: corrupt. of business ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. англо-туземный, гибридный язык 2. англо-китайский гибридный язык 3. гибридный язык (с искажением морфологического и фонетического облика слов) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1876, from pigeon English (1859), the reduced form of the language used in China for communication with Europeans, from pigeon, itself a pidgin word, representing a Chinese pronunciation of business. Meaning extended 1921 to "any simplified language." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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