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patois > 2 senses
NOUN	1	patois, slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, vernacular	A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
NOUN	2	patois	A regional dialect of a language (especially French)

patois > noun 1, communication
Meaning	A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
Synonyms	slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, vernacular
Usage of	square, straight; besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet; can-do; freaky; uncool; grotty; some; built, stacked, well-stacked; mean; bolshy, stroppy; pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off; slam-bang; bite; heist, rip-off; shakedown; square-bashing; shakedown; caff; deck; gat, rod; Mickey Finn; nick; schlock, shlock, dreck; cert; legs; soup-strainer, toothbrush; pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy; niff, pong; corker; stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock; baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle; folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop; skin flick; bunfight, bun-fight; burnup; nosh-up; 'hood; Jap, Nip; airhead; baby, sister; bad egg; boffin; good egg; guvnor; old man; out-and-outer; schlockmeister, shlockmeister; squeeze; tripper; wog; juice; pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money; key; skinful; juice; the shits, the trots; jitters, heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies; bitch; bumf, bumph; clean, plumb, plum; drop-dead; give; buy it, pip out; feel; hoof; chuck, ditch; bunk off, play hooky
Broader	non-standard speech
Narrower	street name; rhyming slang

patois > noun 2, communication
Meaning	A regional dialect of a language (especially French). Usually considered substandard.
Usage	French
Broader	dialect, idiom, accent

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