patois
patois
Definition
pa·tois (pa′twä′; Fr pȧ twȧ′)
patois
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- speech: Using the patois of Jamaican speech, LKJ articulates the Black British experience and uses the rhythms of reggae to get his message across.
Converse of object
- speak: The Speak Jamaican - with an excellent collection of pages including help in speaking Jamaican patois.
- use: For me, the shorthand character sketches, often using patois or speech rhythms, are the most immediate things in the book.
Adjective modifier
- Jamaican: The language here is Jamaican patois - a version of English which has developed in Jamaica.
- French: Local French patois is spoken Weather Hot tropical climate with cool sea breezes.
- local: Local French patois is spoken Weather Hot tropical climate with cool sea breezes.
- soft: Card was filled the soft patois were three hours late.
- Caribbean: From poems written in strict form to poems written in Caribbean patois.
- English: Among young people is there a developing English Urdu patois?
Noun used with modifier
- street: Some odd melange of Whitehall, English and the street patois of Blather.
patois Quotes
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-downpatoiswhichissomething likethewaya Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive,God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.
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