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Initially pretty averse to one’s local dialect
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patois
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: cant , jargon , slang , lingo , argot , vernacular ] a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patois \Pa`tois"\ (p[.a]`tw[aum]"), n. [F.] A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. --Sir T. Browne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a provincial dialect," 1640s, from French patois "native or local speech" (13c.), of uncertain origin, probably from Old French patoier "handle clumsily, to paw," from pate "a paw," from Vulgar Latin *patta (see patten ), from notion of clumsy manner of ...
Usage examples of patois.
His ungrammatical French was the fluidly sloppy get-along speech of an Anglophone who has made his home among French-speakers for a few months, not the half-African patois of the slave quarters.
Chimpanion manifested as a male, speaking a pidgin patois of English and French, in a belch-riven bonobo accent.
Genoese conjugates his patois verbs, with subjunctives and all things of that handsome kind, lacked by the English of Universities.
Creole French that she always used in her ceremonies, rather than the anglicized patois of his followers.
Goldoni and Gallina and Signor Fogazzaro have written in the patois of the Veneto, use no dialect at all.
He was a true Jerseyman at heart, and speaking to such as Dormy Jamais he used the homely patois phrases.
I was very young, my mother put me to bed with these stories, told in the harsh, old-fashioned French patois of her aunts, a sound that I associated with the stern-voiced chants of the Onondagan storytellers who used similar cautionary tales when they sought to persuade recalcitrant rebels to bend their will to that of the Confederacy.
The Ranz des Vaches of Vaud is in the patois of the country, a dialect that is composed of words of Greek and Latin origin, mingled on a foundation of Celtic.
A few more quick orders in the local patois -- a corrupt version of Spanglish -- and the doctor found himself disarmed.
At the end of the dialogue, which was carried on in the patois of Forli, the witch having received a silver ducat from my grandmother, opened a box, took me in her arms, placed me in the box and locked me in it, telling me not to be frightened--a piece of advice which would certainly have had the contrary effect, if I had had any wits about me, but I was stupefied.
He tried to charm them with his expertise on the videogames, but they preferred to murmur to one another in English patois or sit huddled and shivering in the air conditioning.
I was learning the island patois, quickly adjusting my knowledge as I came across the different argots that were used from one island to the next.
Muttering in the Canuck patois of northern New England, he pulled his little audiospectrograph from its waterproof pouch with fingers that trembled from excitement and hit the record pad.
Brown had no idea whether this was pure French or bastardized French or even the patois some of them spoke, which not even a Parisian could understand.
So, mah boys tell me we got us the Dancer hisself, the agent muttered, the patois less Ebonics than, well.