Patois

Definitions: Patois

Patois

Noun

1. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo".

2. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "patois" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Patois \Pa`tois"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Patois

Neologism

Dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.

Crosswords: Patois

French (patois), Italian (patois).

Books

• Dictionary Etymologique Patois Lyonnais (reference)

• Dictionary of Lille Patois Dictionnaire du Patois de Lille (reference)

• Dictionary Patois Bourbonnais Canton de Varennes (reference)

• Le patois ardennais de Gespunsart. (reference)

• Vocabulaire Patois Lillois/ Lillois/Francais/Lillois (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Parla Patois (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Born a Provencal, he had easily made himself familiar with all the patois of the south.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Trinidad and Tobago

Small percentages also speak Hindi, French patois, and several other dialects. (references)

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

The country's official language is English, but a French patois may be heard on some of the Grenadine Islands. (references)

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Language: English (official); some French Patois spoken. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "patois": speak patois. Additional references.

Beginning with "patois": patois-speaking.

Ending with "patois": non-patois.

Albanian

dialekt (dialect, idiom). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لهجة عامية, ‏اللغة الخاصة المميزة لجماعة ما. (various references)

Bulgarian 

местен говор (doric, vernacular), жаргон (argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang, speech). (various references)

Farsi 

لهجه محلی (Patter), لهجه ولایتی وشهرستانی , لهجه عوام . (various references)

French

patois. (various references)

German

Dialekt (dialect, idiom, regional dialect, speech). (various references)

Greek 

επαρχιακή διάλεκτοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ע�'�" (argot, dialect, slang, vernacular). (various references)

Hungarian

szakzsargon (lingo), dialektus (dialect). (various references)

Italian

patois. (various references)

Pig Latin

atoispay

Portuguese

pátio aberto interior, gíria (argot, cant, jargon, slang). (various references)

Romanian

grai (faculty of speech, idiom, power of speech, speech, tongue, voice, word), dialect (dialect, idiom). (various references)

Russian 

местный говор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

žargon (jargon, lingo, vernacular). (various references)

Spanish

dialecto (dialect, speech). (various references)

Swedish

landsmål (dialect), jargong (argot, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular). (various references)

Turkish

lehçe (dialect, idiom, polish, vernacular). (various references)

Ukranian 

місцева говірка. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thổ ngữ địa phương. (various references)

patoier. (various references)

patois. (various references)

Misspellings

"Patois" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aphthoid, palois, paota, Parois, patagia, patiol, patiom, pation, Patior, patiot, patiou, patis, patoe, patoit, Patons, patos, patouis, patris, Pattis, patulin, Patxi, Perthois, Petisi, Pistoia, pitais, pitots, pitous, potois, potous, ptosis. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: patios.

-1 letter: iotas, ostia, patio, pitas, posit, psoai, spait, stoai, tapis, topis.

-2 letters: aits, atop, iota, oast, oats, opts, past, pats, pias, piso, pita, pits, pois, post, pots, sati, soap, spat, spit, spot, stoa, stop, taos, taps, tips, topi, tops.

-3 letters: ais, ait, apt, asp, its, oat, ops, opt, pas, pat, pia, pis, pit, poi, pot, psi, sap, sat, sip, sit, sop, sot, spa, tao, tap, tas, tip, tis, top.

-4 letters: ai, as, at, is, it, op, os, pa, pi, si, so, ta, ti, to.

+1 letter: airpost, apostil, atopies, impasto, opiates, psoatic, topsail, utopias.

+2 letters: airports, airposts, aphorist, apomicts, apostils, appoints, apposite, apricots, atropins, atropism, autopsic, capitols, captions, captious, coalpits, dioptase, dystopia, ectopias, galipots, hospital, hospitia, impastos, maintops, opuntias, pactions, parodist, parotids, pastromi, patriots, pigboats, pintados, pintanos, piscator, postpaid, potassic, prosaist, protasis, ptomains, saponite, satinpod, scotopia, soapiest, spiccato, spoliate, subtopia, talipots, tampions, tapiocas, topsails, utopians.

+3 letters: adaptions, adiposity, adoptions, agitprops, antipasto, antiphons, antipodes, antipoles, antipopes, anviltops, aphorists, apologist, apoptosis, apostolic, aspirator, atrophias, atrophies, atropines, atropisms, autopsied, autopsies, copasetic, dioptases, diplomats, dystopian, dystopias, expiators, gallipots, hospitals, hypotaxis, impactors, impastoed, isophotal, opacities, operatics, oppilates, optatives, opticians, optionals, outpaints, parodists, parotitis, parotoids, pasticcio, pastorali, pastoring, pastromis, patooties, patronise, periostea, photopias, pilotages, pintadoes, piscators, piscatory, pistachio, plastisol, poachiest, ponytails, portraits, postaxial, posttrial, potassium, potations, priorates, prosaists, prostatic, prostomia, protamins, protistan, psoriatic, ptomaines, pulsation, pupations, rainspout, saponites, saprolite, satinpods, scapolite, scotopias, simpatico, sociopath, spiccatos, spoliated, spoliates, spoliator, subtopias, supinator, talapoins, thiotepas, topiaries, troopials, troupials.

+4 letters: abruptions, absorption, absorptive, adipocytes, adsorption, adsorptive, allotypies, altiplanos, ametropias, anisotropy, antipastos, antipodals, aphoristic, apologists, aposematic, apostacies, apostasies, apostatise, apostatize, apotheosis, apparitors, appointees, apportions, appositely, apposition, appositive, ascription, aspiration, aspirators, assumption, asymptotic, audiotapes, authorship, autopilots, autopsying, autotypies, ballpoints, caespitose, capacitors, captiously, captoprils, cocaptains, complaints, constipate, depositary, diplomates, disappoint, epilations, episcopate, epistolary, evaporites, expiations, factorship, hospitable, hospitably, hypostasis, hypostatic, hypotonias, impactions, imperators, inapposite, inspirator, lipomatous, miscaption, myopathies, neoplastic, nonplastic, nonspatial, occipitals, operations, operatives, outpassing, paintworks, palliators, palmations, palpations, pantomimes, papillotes, parashioth, parasitoid, parathions, parodistic, partitions, passionate, pasticcios, pastorship, patchoulis, patriotism, patronised, patronises, patronizes, periosteal, petalodies, petticoats, phonations, phosphatic, phototaxis, pictograms, pictorials, pistachios, placations, planations, planetoids, plastisols, pleonastic, plications, podiatries, podiatrist, poinsettia, polarities, pollinates, polygamist, positional, postatomic, postcoital, postdating, postimpact, postmating, potassiums, potentials, predations, pretorians, prismatoid, privations, probations, prolactins, pronations, proplastid, prorations, prostatism, prostomial, protamines, proteinase, protistans, psoriatics, pulsations, purgations, rainspouts, reappoints, respirator, rhapsodist, saprolites, scapolites, scriptoria, semipostal, separation, sociopaths, sociopathy, spallation, speciation, spoliating, spoliation, spoliators, stainproof, standpoint, stipulator, stylopodia, suboptimal, supination, supinators, supraoptic, symposiast, synoptical, trapezoids, tropotaxis, usurpation, utopianism, videotapes, waitperson.

+5 letters: absorptions, accompanist, adaptations, adiposities, adoptianism, adoptionism, adoptionist, adsorptions, allopatries, allotropies, amputations, angioplasty, anisotropic, anthropoids, antileprosy, antileptons, antiphonals, antiphonies, antipodeans, antiprotons, antistrophe, apologetics, aposiopetic, apostatised, apostatises, apostatized, apostatizes, apostleship, apostrophic, apotheosize, apparitions, applicators, appositions, appositives, apriorities, ascriptions, aspirations, assumptions, atmospheric, authorships, blastoporic, capitations, captionless, captivators, ceratopsian, coaptations, compactions, comparatist, compatibles, compatriots, complaisant, complicates, conspirator, constipated, constipates, copulations, copulatives, corporatism, corporatist, curatorship, cuspidation, cytoplasmic, depilations, deputations, desperation, diapositive, diastrophic, diphosphate, diplomatist, disappoints, disputation, dissipation, duplicators, ectoplasmic, episcopates, euphoriants, expirations, explicators, extirpators, factorships, fortepianos, graptolites, hierophants, homoplastic, hospitalise, hospitality, hospitalize, hypertonias, hypogastric, hypoplastic, hypostatize, impersonate, importances, imputations, inspiration, inspirators, inspiratory, inspissator, juxtaposing, kinetoplast, leptospiral, lithographs, lithophanes, malapropist, malposition, misanthrope, misanthropy, miscaptions, morphactins, multiparous, mycophagist, mythopoeias, noncapitals, nonhospital, nonpartisan, nonplastics, nyctalopias, occupations, ophthalmias, osteopathic, outpatients, outspanning, outspeaking, paginations, palliations, pantomimist, parasitoids, parasitoses, parasitosis, parotitises, passivation, pastoralism, pastoralist, pastorships, patchoulies, pathologies, pathologist, patinations, patrimonies, patriotisms, patronising, patronymics, peacockiest, peculations, pejoratives, pentaploids, perestroika, peristomial, permeations, perorations, personalist, personality, personating, personation, personative, phosphatide, phosphatize, photomosaic, photostatic, phyllotaxis, pianofortes, picketboats, pictographs, piscatorial, pixilations, plantations, plasmolytic, podiatrists, poinsettias, politicians, pollinators, polygamists, polymathies, pontificals, populations, portraitist, postclassic, postcranial, postglacial, postholiday, postlanding, postmarital, postmarking, postnuptial, postorbital, postprimary, postulating, postulation, postvocalic, postweaning, potentiates, potentillas, praetorians, praetorship, pratincoles, precautions, prismatoids, probabilist, profanities, profligates, prognathism, propionates, propitiates, proplastids, prostatisms, prostatitis, prostrating, prostration, protagonist, proteinases, provitamins, psittacoses, psittacosis, psittacotic, punctations, purgatories, pustulation, pyroclastic, radiophotos, reparations, replicators, repudiators, reputations, respiration, respirators, respiratory, rhapsodists, rhinoplasty, saprophytic, saxophonist, scyphistoma, semipostals, senatorship, separations, sociopathic, sophistical, spallations, spanakopita, spanokopita, spasmolytic, speciations, speculation, spiculation, spirochaete, spirochetal, spoliations, spontaneity, sporulating, sporulation, sporulative, standpoints, steatopygia, steatopygic, stephanotis, stipulation, stipulators, stipulatory, subtropical, supernation, supinations, suppuration, suspiration, sycophantic, symposiasts, symptomatic, syncopating, syncopation, syncopative, taphonomies, taphonomist, temporaries, temptations, tetraploids, tetrasporic, theophanies, thiopentals, toxoplasmic, trampolines, transposing, triceratops, usurpations, utopianisms, vasospastic, waitpersons.

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