chinook jargon

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   a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America

   SynonymsOregon Jargon

   Broaderpidgin

Questions about chinook jargon

What does chinook jargon mean?

chinook jargon means "a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America".

What is another word for chinook jargon?

Close synonyms include Oregon Jargon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinook jargon a common word?

chinook jargon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.