Confused or muddled language.

A language made up of a mixture of elements from two or more languages; spec. (a) one which has been substantially influenced by another language (as…

A barbarous, rude, or debased language or variety of speech; a ‘lingo’; used esp. of a hybrid speech arising from a mixture of languages. Also…

A pidgin language drawing its lexicon mainly from the southern Romance languages and formerly used as a trading language, first in the eastern…

With ellipsis of ‘language’. A lingua franca or mixed language. Obsolete. rare.

A mixture of several languages. Also figurative and in extended use.

A diverse mixture of things or elements; spec. a mixture of different languages. Cf. olio, n. 2.

Originally: pidgin English. Subsequently gen.: a language containing lexical and other features from two or more languages, characteristically…

A language that has developed from the mixing of two or more parent languages and has come to be the… Linguistics. More generally: any language that…

= mixed language, n.

= Creole, n. 2b.

a language spoken in Melanesia, derived from pidgin English but now effectively a creole, comprising three main varieties or dialects (Tok Pisin in…