单词 | pig latin |
释义 | pig Latinn. 1. Incorrect or bad Latin; mock-Latin, spurious or parodying Latin. Cf. hog Latin n. at hog n.1 Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > anglicized or corrupt English Latinc1475 kitchen-Latin1579 law-Latin1615 dog-Latin1661 bog Latin1785 hog Latin1807 Anglo-Latin1811 rogue's Latin1818 Monk-Latin1843 pig Latin1844 1844 Brooklyn Eagle 16 July We do not see what there is to prevent a dealer in liquor from displaying a pound or two of Epsom salts in his window, three or four jars, labelled with inscriptions in pig latin, and sticking up an apothecary's shingle. 1869 Putnam's Mag. May 610/1 I had plenty of ammunition in reserve, to say nothing, Tom, of our pig Latin. ‘Hoggibus, piggibus et shotam damnabile grunto’, and all that sort of thing. 1951 N. Schachner Thomas Jefferson (1957) iv. 37 Jefferson..was penning a weird, schoolboyish, pig-Latin letter to his friend... ‘Galfridi-filius Ambulatori S. (Jeffrey-son to Walker greeting)’. 2000 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 18 Aug. 8 It was ignorance that led the cultists to believe that amulets and pig Latin inscribed on bond paper would protect them from the storm of bullets. 2. An invented or modified version of a language; spec. a systematically altered form of English used as a sort of code, esp. by children. In extended use: excessively convoluted language.The most common form is produced by transferring the initial consonant or consonant cluster of each word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable (usually /eɪ/). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > artificial or invented language artificial language1705 natural language1774 Ziph1834 Volapük1885 Esperanto1892 pig Latin1896 pseudo-language1898 Idiom Neutral1903 auxiliary language1905 Panroman1907 universal1907 Ido1908 Mummerset1915 Interlingua1922 Reformed Neutral1922 occidental1926 interlanguage1927 world auxiliary1927 Novial1928 isotype1936 Interglossa1943 Klingon1985 leetspeak1996 leet2001 1896 J. Willard in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 61/1 They all spoke a queer jargon which they themselves had invented. It was something like the well-known ‘pig Latin’ that all sorts of children like to play with. 1937 E. Lyons Assignment in Utopia (1938) iii. xii. 402 Ideological hair-splitting and proletarian pig-Latin. 2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 7 Dec. c2 Hamlet in pig Latin: ‘Otay ebay, orway otnay otay ebay; athay isway ethay estionquay’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1844 |
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