Noun: pidgin
| Singular | pidgin |
| Plural | pidgins |
Sample Sentences
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‘I didnʼt know you can speak pidgin,’ he said and laughed. [2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 79:]
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Forget money. That's my pidgin. [1950, Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon:]
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It's up to the detective sergeant to ask his own questions, that's not my pidgin. But I did wonder if either of you gentlemen had an idea of the exact time of the shot. [2015, Guy Cullingford, Post Mortem:]
Nouns inflected like pidgin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. All attestations of pidgin from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary mean “business; an action, occupation, or affair” (the earliest being from 1807). Other suggested derivations include:
2. * Hebrew פִּדְיוֹן (pidyón, “exchange; trade; redemption”)
3. * Chinese pronunciation of Portuguese ocupação (“occupation; business”)
4. * South Seas pronunciation of beach
5. * Portuguese baixo (“low”) See: English Nouns '
business', Portuguese Nouns '
ocupação', Portuguese Nouns '
baixo'.
Verbs referencing "pidgin"
Catalan Nouns
pidgin, Russian Nouns
пиджин, Polish Nouns
pidżyn, Polish Nouns
pidżin, German Nouns
Pidgin.