How to Use pidgin in a Sentence

pidgin

noun

• But the effect is as vivid as the sassy, strong-willed narrator’s pidgin.
  — Tsitsi Dangarembga, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• Hapa is a Hawaiian pidgin word used to describe mixed-race people (usually those who are half Asian and half white).
  — Danielle M. Wong, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2017
• Ed Sheeran takes over the second verse with lyrics peppered with upbeat pidgin and interlaced with words from Yoruba which forms the lyrics of the original song.
  — Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2021
• The creoles emerged from a first-contact language or pidgin resulting from the contact between the Portuguese colonizers and the slaves from the kingdom of Benin in Sao Tome.
  — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz, 23 July 2021
• Blending several local languages and named after a mixed fruit salad, the pidgin can often be heard in places like street markets.
  — Beh Lih Yi, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2020
• Sometimes her Native American characters speak a cigar-store pidgin to one another, only to drop it further down on the same page.
  — William T. Vollmann, New York Times, 17 June 2016
• Namaste Wahala' loosely translates to 'Hello trouble' and it is filmed in a mix of Hindu and Nigeria's pidgin language.
  — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 24 Feb. 2020
• Speaking in a pidgin of French and English, and switching back and forth sometimes within the same sentence, Delphine's story comes out in jagged rambles, which are often heartbreaking.
  — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
• Japanese immigrants who worked in pineapple fields and on sugarcane plantations introduced their ice-cold kakigori to Hawaii in the late 1800s, where it became known as shave ice in Hawaiian pidgin.
  — Omar Mamoon, Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
• In the traditional account of this process, a creole most often arose from a pidgin: a simple, improvised argot drawing most of its words from the (usually European) languages of the masters.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• As with his totemic travel writing, exotic settings and a flair for adventure invigorate the otherwise workmanlike prose, and the scenes flash with surfer’s lingo, snatches of Hawaiian pidgin and odes to the ocean.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• Many cats and their human companions seem to develop a pidgin language in order to communicate better.
  — National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2016
• Many cats and their human companions seem to develop a pidgin language in order to communicate better.
  — National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2016
• American English is meant to grow wild and woolly on our shores, spawning dialects and pidgins, wantonly consuming foreign words and locutions, anarchically legitimizing slang and warped grammar.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 28 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024