/'pɪdʒɪn; `pɪdʒɪn/
n any of several languages resulting from contact between European traders and local peoples, eg in W Africa and SE Asia, containing elements of the local language(s) and esp English,French or Dutch, and still used for internal communication 洋泾滨语
*speak in pidgin 讲洋泾滨话
* [attrib 作定语] pidgin English, ie language derived from English and another language 洋泾滨英语. Cf 参看 creole.

n [U and C]
[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Chinese;Origin:English business]
a language that is a mixture of two other languages, which people who do not speak each other's languages well use to talk to each other
pidgin English/French etc
English, French etc that is mixed with the words or grammar of another language