pidgin

IPA: pˈɪdʒɪn

(linguistics) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.
(archaic, idiomatic) A person's business, occupation, work, or trade (also spelt as pigeon)

Examples of "pidgin" in Sentences

The story of a Korean uprising told in pidgin poetry.
It is difficult to defend an American president who speaks in pidgin-English.
My Mr. told me that the key to pidgin is to pick out the English words and try to make sense of them.
A pidgin is a simplified language used to help two groups with distinct languages communicate with each other.
A pidgin is a mashup of two languages A and B used when a speaker of A and a speaker of B want/need to communicate.
A pidgin is what you get when you throw people together who have no common language and gramatically its kind of a mess.
We gave them worm tablets and would ask them politely, in pidgin English, to collect their fecal matter in buckets for us.
"no got pidgin," and _pidgin English_ simply means a workable knowledge of colloquial English as picked up by tradesmen, servants and coolies, in contradistinction to English as taught in the schools.
Anglo used to enroll them in informal classes to learn Fanagolo, a century-old, 200-word pidgin language that was created decades ago so that mining bosses could order illiterate miners to perform basic tasks.