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OREGON JARGON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America
Synonyms:
Chinook Jargon; Oregon Jargon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Oregon Jargon" is a kind of...):
pidgin (an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages)