patois en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- pătʹwä (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
- pătwäzʹ (General-American)
- pătwäʹ (General-American)
- /pæˈtwɑ/ (General-American)
- /pæˈtwɑz/ (General-American)
- pătʹwäz (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpæ.twɑː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpæ.twɑːz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Borrowed from French patois (“regional dialect or language”), c. 1635.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A regional dialect (usually one considered nonstandard) 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.
1890, [Jacques] Élisée Reclus, “Java”, in A. H. Keane, editor, Oceanica (The Earth and Its Inhabitants; 14), New York: D. Appleton and Company, Inhabitants:*The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.
2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2022:
- (countable, uncountable) Any of various French, Franco-Provençal or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
- (countable, uncountable) Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti).
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(Jamaica, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of Jamaican Patois.
alt of Jamaican Patois
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
2021 July 18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2021:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| patois | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| Patois | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Patwa · Jamaican Patois · Jamaican
Translations (10)
gl dialecto (regional dialect of a language) · eo loklingvo (regional dialect of a language) · es dialecto (regional dialect of a language) · nl streektaal (regional dialect of a language) · sh regiolekt (regional dialect of a language) · hi पात्वा (regional dialect of a language) · el ντοπιολαλιά (regional dialect of a language) · pt patoá (regional dialect of a language) · es patuá (regional dialect of a language) · uk патуа́ (regional dialect of a language)