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patois

noun as in jargon

Strong match

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She talks like her daughter now; everyone does, in that speedy, all-knowing, wisecrack-spattered sitcom patois of Modern Family.

Biderman, who has an amazing ear for dialogue and verbal cues, has the Hollywood patois down pat.

The patois of Saint-Rémy has been developed and expanded into a beautiful literary language.

Jasmin had already shown the Parisians that real poetry of a high order could be written in a patois.

He sympathizes with every attempt, wherever made, the world over, to raise up a patois into a language.

So that the Provençal language, in spite of everything, keeps a certain patois vulgarity.

Some of the hay-makers called to me, but in such barbarous patois, that I could make nothing of them.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to patois, such as: argot, dialect, idiom, lingo, slang, and vernacular.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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