patois

alternative Patois

1. countableuncountableA regional dialect (usually one considered nonstandard) of a language (especially French).

   *The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.

   2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2022

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   [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.

   1890, [Jacques] Élisée Reclus, “Java”, in A. H. Keane, editor, Oceanica (The Earth and Its Inhabitants; 14), New York: D. Appleton and Company, Inhabitants

2. countableuncountableAny of various French, Franco-Provençal or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
3. countableuncountableCreole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti).
4. JamaicaabbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Jamaican Patois.
5. countableuncountableJargon or cant.

   In the patois of insurance, the winery will go bare into this year’s burning season, which experts predict to be especially fierce.

   2021 July 18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2021

1. alternativeAlternative form of Patwa.