PIDGIN


Meaning of PIDGIN in English

/pij"euhn/ , n.

1. an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.

2. (loosely) any simplified or broken form of a language, esp. when used for communication between speakers of different languages.

[ 1875-80; extracted from PIDGIN ENGLISH ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .