The bigger the barrel, the bigger the battle,' ez ol' Isra'l Pidgin use to say.
Discretion is the better part o' valor when theys a job to lose,' ez ol' Isra'l Pidgin use to say.
For in this respect Chinese resembles Japanese, though in very little else, and pidgin English is nothing but the literal translation of the Chinese idiom into Anglo-Saxon words.
What I called your pidgin English," he assured her.
Cut out the pidgin English and the interlarding of French idiom and phrases, won't you?
For pidgin English simply consists in taking English words and treating them like Chinese characters, that is, divesting them of all troublesome inflections and reducing them to a set of root-ideas arranged in logical sequence.
When in pidgin English we speak of "one piecee man" or "three piecee dollar," the word piecee is simply a Chinese numerative in English dress.
She later found an intelligent Samoan named Leuelu who understood her pidgin Samoan perfectly and learned to carry out all her orders.
The maintenance of such syllables in ordinary rapid speech is one of the characteristics of pidgin or foreigner's speech.
There are two types of inaccuracy: that in which a colloquial form is replaced by a classical form and vice versa, and that in which a native form is replaced by a pidgin form.
Too large a proportion of constructed matter, on the other hand, will certainly result in an artificial sort of speech or a pidgin form, with all its evil consequences.
Pidgin or pidgin-speech may be defined as that variety of a language which is used exclusively by foreigners.
The courtesy due to a host prevented me from suggesting that if a Frenchman said 'beaucoup belle' he would be talking pidgin French.
But his special friend was Lieskov, who carried the child about on his back, performed many droll antics to amuse him, and taught him words of pidgin Russian.
The professor who spoke to me in this language told me that the French possessed no poetical literature, and he said the reason of this was that the French language was a bastard language; that it was, in fact, a kind of pidgin Latin.
He said when a Frenchman says a girl is 'beaucoup belle,' he is usingpidgin Latin.
And thereupon in tolerable pidgin English he unfolded his tale.
And I thought for once that her lapse into pidgin had been deliberate and not accidental.
But she was in no mood for the interchange of remarks in pidgin English.
On the wharves at Shanghai you can hear a Canton Chinaman and a Shanghai Chinaman talking together in pidgin English, their only means of communication.
Kate had learned to talk on the island; she spoke pidgin from deep down.
In a month he had a tan, and hispidgin had come back.
Massa no unastand this time; some time massa savvy pidgin all same," said Chin Tai.
He say my tellum plenty lies, talkee foolo pidginall time.
You and I, Robert, can get on fairly well, but we help our Chinese largely with pidgin English, and often feel the disadvantage of not being able to talk fluently to the people in their own language.
He understands it perfectly, sir, but only speaks pidgin English.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pidgin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cant; dialect; jargon; lingo
