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Definition: PIGEON ENGLISH |
PIGEON ENGLISH1. [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. --Johnson's Cyc. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Neologism | Dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "PIGEON ENGLISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tört angolság (broken english, pidgin, pidgin english). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igeonpay englishay criador de pombos. (various references) kreolski dijalekt engleskog jezika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cajanus cajan, Cajanus indicus, Columba palumbus, Columba unicincta, Columbidae, Quercus pedunculata, Quercus robur, RM:tidun, Ulmus campestris, Ulmus carpinifolia, Vicia faba var. minor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-o-p-s" | |
-3 letters: englishing, plenishing. | |
-4 letters: elegising, eloigning, gingelies, polishing, shingling, siphoning, sleighing. | |
-5 letters: eloining, enisling, ensiling, epigones, gingelis, heelings, helpings, hiplines, inhesion, longeing, longings, longship, negliges, neighing, openings, peelings, pensione, phosgene, pignolis, pinholes, sheening, shieling, singeing, singling, sleeping, slinging, speeling, speiling, spieling, splining, spoiling, sponging. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Translations: Ancient 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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