patois

How To Use patois In A Sentence

• I went through the small village, looking at the farmland, listening to the local patois, which was a curious mixture of French and Low German. QUEEN’S RANSOM
• At the age of 14, she began to write and dramatize poems using patois rather than standard English.
• Abbreviated by subsequent usage to _bête-'ni-pié_, the appellation has amphibology; -- for there are two words _ni_ in the patois, one signifying "to have," and the other "naked. Two Years in the French West Indies
• She spoke the word conspiratorially as if it were part of some criminal patois, a naughty expression which she was daring to use. A Mind to Murder
• The West Country dialect smacks as much of the farmyard as the patois of the French peasant, or the even more deliberate drawl of the Texan cattleman.
• He peppers the storytelling with African-American colloquialisms and excursions into patois that echo his native Trinidad, the South, the street, the church and the bush.
• Iye ftip," Andre said to the waiter in the Happy Garden patois. METAPLANETARY
• Among themselves they speak a Ligurian patois, but with the stranger they will use an Italian easily much better than his, and also much better than their own French. Roman Holidays, and Others
• At the age of 14, she began to write and dramatize poems using patois rather than standard English.
• I can speak all kinds of French: regular, patois, joual, franglais … even Parisian French. Gelett Burgess and the blurb