Linguistic 30-Across

Usage examples of pidgin.

Intermixed were vendors of all kinds, and swarms of maids shouting the virtues of the Houses in versions of pithy, raucous pidgin, and sounding over everything the happy banter of potential customers, most of whom were recognized and had their favored places.

Like this little house and this man and woman, chattering half in Japanese, half in pidgin, laughing one with another, one a madam the other a customer, both pretending they are something else.

Here the Yoshiwara seemed to be slumbering, but not far away the houses and bars on Main Street were bubbling, the night young with the noise of men laughing and raucous singing, the occasional twang of samisen and laughter and pidgin mixed with it.

That is true but because of her, last night I went to the Three Carp and saw Raiko and while we talked in our mixture of Japanese and English and pidgin I suddenly felt that the other had just been a rotten nightmare and that any moment Hana would appear, the laugh in her eyes, and my heart would swirl as always and we would leave Raiko and bathe together, play there, eat in private and love without haste.

Only speak Japanese, no pidgin, become a teacher, encourage him, and remember he is ridiculously shy and knows nothing and never mention Kant-er-bury.

She stared up at him a moment, then more Japanese and pidgin that did not make sense.

Their communication was with sign language and a little pidgin, and he was chief bodyguard.

As Malcolm had explained, speaking in correct English directly at Ah Soh, not pidgin, that the maid could not understand would make her lose face.

When children learn a pidgin as their native language, it will begin to develop as any other language does.

It is essentially pidgin Indo-European, without enough native speakers as yet to qualify as a Creole.

Susumo has made a start at establishing a pidgin to enable us to communicate with the sprookjes.

In pidgin, it was the nipping motion with which everyone in camp had been examined.

Vikry was familiar with the pidgin and she had no sprookje for reassurance.

LightningStruck did it for her, adding the pidgin gesture as well, with a glance at Tocohl to see if she understood.

Merizo thought about it for a moment and seemed satisfied that the formalities had been observed, because he began to speak pidgin, using the fly whisk to help his gestures.