patois

  1. Noun.  A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
  2. Noun.  Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
  3. Noun.  Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago& Haiti).
  4. Noun.  A Jamaican Creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
  5. Noun.  Jargon or cant.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.