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patois

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6 lettersPronunciation /pæˈtwɑ/Part of speech nounSorted aiopstStarts with PEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard

Word origin

Borrowed from French patois (“regional dialect or language”), c. 1635.

Used in a sentence

  • [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.
  • *The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.
  • In the patois of insurance, the winery will go bare into this year’s burning season, which experts predict to be especially fierce.

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