pidgin
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Noun — A simple mixed language that two groups without a shared language use to talk to each other, with basic grammar, a small vocabulary and no native speakers, and often helped along with gestures.
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Etymology
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 fr...
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