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pidgin
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural pidgins
plural pidgins
Learner's definition of PIDGIN
[count, noncount]
: a language that is formed from a mixture of several languages when speakers of different languages need to talk to each other混杂语；洋泾浜语 — often used before another noun常用于另一名词前
- linguists studying pidgin languages around the world研究全世界洋泾滨语的语言学家
- He spoke to me in Pidgin English. [=English mixed with words from other languages]他用洋泾滨英语和我说话。
: a simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages
Did you know?
The History of Pidgin
The history of pidgin begins in the early 19th century in the South China city of Guangzhou. Chinese merchants interacting with English speakers on the docks in this port adopted and modified the word business in a way that, by century's end, had become pidgin. The word itself then became the descriptor of the unique communication used by people who speak different languages. Pidgins generally consist of small vocabularies (Chinese Pidgin English has only 700 words), but some have grown to become a group's native language. Examples include Sea Island Creole (spoken in
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web With the song — a feel-good tune sung in Nigerian pidgin and blending punk rock, Afrobeats, and folk — Okorocha and Co. are also attempting to challenge the negative stereotypes attached to rock music in this part of the world. 
Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022 But Amazon expects this person to be well connected with the Nigerian film industry, already boasting relationships with top creators, fluency in Nigerian pidgin and one or more indigenous languages. Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022 Ed Sheeran takes over the second verse with lyrics peppered with upbeat pidgin and interlaced with words from Yoruba which forms the lyrics of the original song. Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2021 Japanese immigrants who worked in pineapple fields and on sugarcane plantations introduced their ice-cold kakigori to Hawaii in the late 1800s, where it became known as shave ice in Hawaiian pidgin. Omar Mamoon, Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021 This relationship between the Portuguese and Edo people in the region shaped the pidgin spoken in the Niger Delta region today and also—what may be a surprise to many—Portuguese creole. Uwagbale Edward-ekpu, Quartz, 23 July 2021 The creoles emerged from a first-contact language or pidgin resulting from the contact between the Portuguese colonizers and the slaves from the kingdom of Benin in Sao Tome. Uwagbale Edward-ekpu, Quartz, 23 July 2021 Speaking in a pidgin of French and English, and switching back and forth sometimes within the same sentence, Delphine's story comes out in jagged rambles, which are often heartbreaking. Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021 As with his totemic travel writing, exotic settings and a flair for adventure invigorate the otherwise workmanlike prose, and the scenes flash with surfer’s lingo, snatches of Hawaiian pidgin and odes to the ocean. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 May 2021 See More
Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022 But Amazon expects this person to be well connected with the Nigerian film industry, already boasting relationships with top creators, fluency in Nigerian pidgin and one or more indigenous languages. Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022 Ed Sheeran takes over the second verse with lyrics peppered with upbeat pidgin and interlaced with words from Yoruba which forms the lyrics of the original song. Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2021 Japanese immigrants who worked in pineapple fields and on sugarcane plantations introduced their ice-cold kakigori to Hawaii in the late 1800s, where it became known as shave ice in Hawaiian pidgin. Omar Mamoon, Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021 This relationship between the Portuguese and Edo people in the region shaped the pidgin spoken in the Niger Delta region today and also—what may be a surprise to many—Portuguese creole. Uwagbale Edward-ekpu, Quartz, 23 July 2021 The creoles emerged from a first-contact language or pidgin resulting from the contact between the Portuguese colonizers and the slaves from the kingdom of Benin in Sao Tome. Uwagbale Edward-ekpu, Quartz, 23 July 2021 Speaking in a pidgin of French and English, and switching back and forth sometimes within the same sentence, Delphine's story comes out in jagged rambles, which are often heartbreaking. Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021 As with his totemic travel writing, exotic settings and a flair for adventure invigorate the otherwise workmanlike prose, and the scenes flash with surfer’s lingo, snatches of Hawaiian pidgin and odes to the ocean. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 May 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
pidgin English
First Known Use
1869, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of pidgin was in 1869 Phrases Containing pidgin
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