Patois

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A regional dialect (usually one considered substandard) of a language (especially French).

   “[The Sundanese] are regarded as relatively barbarous, and in the company of Malays or Javanese, they are themselves ashamed of their dialect, which is looked on as a sort of rude patois.”

2. isim Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
3. isim Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti).
4. isim Ellipsis of Jamaican Patois.
5. isim Jargon or cant.

   “In the patois of insurance, the winery will go bare into this year’s burning season, which experts predict to be especially fierce.”

6. özel isim Alternative form of Patwa.