Patois
Patois noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.
Usage example: the medical patois that the hospital staffers used among themselves was incomprehensible to me
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Pidgin
Pidgin noun - An artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages.
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Patois and pidgin are semantically related in casual dialect topic. You can use "Patois" instead a noun "Pidgin".
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Pidgin and Patois. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/patois/pidgin
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