patois in English

noun
1
the dialect of the common people of a region, differing in various respects from the standard language of the rest of the country.
the nurse talked to me in a patois that even Italians would have had difficulty in understanding
synonyms:vernacular(local) dialectregional languagejargonargotcant(local) lingo
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "patois" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "patois", or refer to the context using the word "patois" in the English Dictionary.

1. He speaks the local patois.

2. His comprehension of the patois was total.

3. The Latin words died, replaced by ones in patois.

4. In France patois was spoken in rural, less developed regions.

5. The text parodies the grammar-poor patois stereotypically attributed to Internet slang.

6. Batty Boy is an offensive Jamaican patois expression referring to a gay man

7. Synonyms for Basilect include dialect, language, lingo, patois, idiom, jargon, vernacular, tongue, argot and brogue

8. Patois cannot be neglected if we wish to study the history and languages of Macao.

9. As a patois , or colloquial , slang is permeated with rich local color and flavor.

10. Both neighborhoods had a strong spiritual sense, a different musical culture, unique foods, and unappreciated patois.

11. Its leaders and managers refuse to speak a polyglot language derived from the patois of lawyers, accountants, and pop psychologists.

12. Patois was a success for the group in so far as they used it succinctly to communicate rejection of authority.

13. Patois: Bandulu dem a Bawl caah babylon wul dem dung English: Criminals are crying because the police held them down

14. Although written in Dutch, the local patois (which was later to evolve into Afrikaans) was used by the appropriate characters.

15. When you actually stop and fink about what you just said, you say oh no, I slipped back into Patois.

16. And then, protected against the pitfalls of this curious patois, you can book your ticket to Tokyo in complete confidence.

17. USAGE: “The constant babble of thousands of beings speaking hundreds of languages, patois, pidgin, and favored dialects blended together to create a rich Basilect brew.”

18. The West Country dialect smacks as much of the farmyard as the patois of the French peasant, or the even more deliberate drawl of the Texan cattleman.

19. All consonants near the front vowel can be regarded as palatalized variphones to make oppositions to those near the central and back vowels in Mongolian Chakhar patois.

20. In Jamaican Patois, Batty boy (also Batty bwoy, Batty man, and chi chi bwoy/man) is a swear word often used to refer to a gay or effeminate man

21. We will oversee the strategic implementation of decisions with a finely developed set of metrics, says Jones in the patois peculiar to those who spend 40 years as a leatherneck .

22. 12 We will oversee the strategic implementation of decisions with a finely developed set of metrics, says Jones in the patois peculiar to those who spend 40 years as a leatherneck .

23. Baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk- a message that seems to convey no meaning jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

24. ‘There were pertinent summaries of Kiwi poetry's nationalism and Colloquialism.’ ‘They use prose, rhyme, slang, metaphor, Colloquialism and patois.’ ‘Her voice is a curious union of American pacing and British Colloquialism, with just enough of an accent to not seem forced, and her grammar is unexpectedly superb.’

25. To Bridge Language and Communication – Students are Encouraged to maintain their family language, whether it be Black English of African Americans, Patois of the Caribbean, Hispanic or Native American Dialects of North, Central and South America, Tribal or Regional Tongues of Africa and Asia, or ‘Americanizations’ of European Languages.

26. Bun-fight - (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion Bunfight jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" party - an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment; "he planned

27. The Honourable Brogad—his unofficial moniker since October 2019, which caught on for months leading up to the 2020 general election, boosting his public profile and the popularity of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)—has now been stripped and left only with a patois derivative of his birth name, ‘Anju’, on Twitter.

28. Cablese and Wirespeak May 26, 2017 by Taylor Jones I'm always interested in jargons, cants, patois(es?) and codes, and recently learned that my father-in-law, a career newsman, didn't just have a problem with his throat this whole time, but rather has been communicating with me and in Cablese (and movie references).

29. Cajun, descendant of Roman Catholic French Canadians whom the British, in the 18th century, drove from the captured French colony of Acadia (now Nova Scotia and adjacent areas) and who settled in the fertile bayou lands of southern Louisiana.The Cajuns today form small, compact, generally self-contained communities.Their patois is a combination of archaic French forms with idioms taken from