patois

patois
n
1. regional or provincial speech, vernacular, vulgar tongue, peasant dialect, native or mother tongue; idiom, parlance, dialect, Inf. lingo, colloquial speech.
2. trade language, lingua franca, peddler's French, St. Giles Greek, pidgin, pidgin English.
3. jargon, cant, argot; educationese, computerese, academese, legalese, journalese, medicalese, newspaperese; shoptalk, newspeak, officialese, bureaucratese, Washingtonese; gobbledygook, patter, mumbo jumbo, gibberish, gibber; nonsense, humbug, flummery, Sl. bunk, rubbish, tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh.

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  • patois — [ patwa ] n. m. • v. 1285; probablt du rad. patt (cf. patte), exprimant la grossièreté 1 ♦ Parler local, dialecte employé par une population généralement peu nombreuse, souvent rurale, et dont la culture, le niveau de civilisation sont jugés… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Patois — is any language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. It can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects, and other forms of native or local speech, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are… …   Wikipedia

  • Patois — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Para otros usos de este término, véase Patois jamaiquino. Etimológicamente, patois (pronúnciese: patuá) se traduce como hablar con las patas y posee una connotación claramente despectiva hacia las variantes… …   Wikipedia Español

  • patois — (patois is both the singular and the plural form; the singular form is pronounced [[t]pæ̱twɑː[/t]], and the plural form is pronounced [[t]pæ̱twɑːz[/t]].) 1) N VAR A patois is a form of a language, especially French, that is spoken in a particular …   English dictionary

  • patois — PATOIS. s. m. Langage rustique, grossier comme est celuy d un païsan, ou du bas peuple. Je n entends point son patois. il parle un franc patois. il me dit en son patois que …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Patois — (fr.; pronunc. «patuá») m. Ling. Habla dialectal restringida a un área muy limitada. * * * El patois (patuá o patwa, como también se puede escribir) es un idioma hablado en el área del Caribe (principalmente Jamaica), y otras partes del mundo… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Patois — On rencontre ce nom surtout dans le Doubs. Il semble que ce soit un toponyme : beaucoup de hameaux s appellent le Patoi, le Patois, mais on les trouve dans le Centre (37), où ils désignent une mare. Rien ne dit que le sens soit le même dans le… …   Noms de famille

  • Patois — Pa tois (p[.a] tw[aum] ), n. [F.] A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. [1913 Webster] The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • patois — (n.) a provincial dialect, 1640s, from Fr. patois native or local speech, from O.Fr. patoier handle clumsily, to paw, from pate a paw, from V.L. *patta, perhaps imitative of the sound made by a paw. The language sense is probably from notion of… …   Etymology dictionary

  • patois — [pa′twä΄; ] Fr [ pȧ twȧ′] n. pl. patois [pa′twäz΄; ] Fr [, pȧtwȧ′] [Fr < OFr, uncultivated speech, akin to patoier, to shake paws, behave crudely < pate, paw, akin to Frank * pauta > PAW1] 1. a form of a language differing generally from …   English World dictionary

  • Patois — (fr., spr. Patoa), 1) Volksmundarten in Frankreich, namentlich wie dieselben von den niederen Schichten der Bevölkerung u. den Landleuten gesprochen werden; 2) so v.w. Provinzialismen …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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