Words and phrases that have a meaning related to patois: (127 results)
Often used in the same context:
pidgin, dialect, pidgin english, argot, colloquial, slang, colloquialism, vernacular, accent, lingo, brogue, idioms, brooklynese, lilt, drawl, creole, franglais, ebonics, singsong, cockney, received pronunciation, cadences, diphthongs, inflections, demotic, krio, ese, twang, wolof, lingua franca, pronunciation, chichewa, language, scots gaelic, monoglot, patter, polyglot, rhyming slang, spanglish, rhymes, intonations, malapropism, lingala, archaisms, etymology, endearment, jook, aramaic, tigrinya, griot, flava, orotund, staccato, yokel, lingua, slanguage, pronounciation, cantonese dialect, wordplay, coinages, negrito, papiamento, tongues, luganda, kirundi, plurals, pushtu, diction, gibberish, dancehall, onomatopoeia, old norse, assonance, glottal stop, loanwords, sotho, haitian creole, darkie, grammar, pig latin, buenos dias, shtik, crunk, swahili, idiomatic expression, cognates, rhythms, vocab, simp, consonants, past participle, mondegreen, englishness, vowels, calypsos, conjugations, kiswahili, duppy, folkways, breed, dialects, colloquialisms, idiom, proverb, vernaculars, pronunciations, accents, appellations, cuisines, custom, nonstandard, basilectal, dialectal, gullah, aryan, attested, dravidian, hamitic, interlanguage, keynote, lettish, mandarin, notational, orthographical
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— Adjectives for patois: french, local, creole, own, jamaican, native, unintelligible, mere, german, peculiar, broad, more...
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