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