pidgin
(noun) an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pidgin (countable and uncountable, plural pidgins)
(linguistics) an amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.
Synonym: baragouin
(archaic, idiomatic) A person's business, occupation, work, or trade.
• Some pidgins that have developed into creoles nevertheless (confusingly) retain the word "pidgin" in their names.
Source: Wiktionary
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
