prepidgin

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noun

An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.

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Meanings

nounprepidgin (plural prepidgins)

plural prepidgins

  1. human sciencesAn early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.

    An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.

    2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, page 383

Origin

From pre- + pidgin.

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APA

prepidgin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prepidgin

MLA

“prepidgin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prepidgin. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prepidgin,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prepidgin.

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