patois

Definitions

• A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
• Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
• Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
• Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
• Jargon or cant.