baragouin
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baragouin
- /ˈbæɹəɡwæ̃/ UK
- /ˈbæɹəɡwæn/ US
- /ˈbɛɹəɡwæn/ US
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Borrowed from French baragouin (“unintelligible speech or writing”).
noun baragouins
- A pidgin. She spoke the rude French of the fishing villages, where the language lives chiefly as a baragouin, mingled often with words and forms belonging to many other tongues.
- A pidgin spoken by French and First Nations people in the 17th century in the region of North America now called Montreal. [T]he French he uttered was such a baragouin as would not be comprehended if it were put down on paper; […]
- Unintelligible speech; gibberish, jargon. I am sick of signals and ciphers and secret meetings and such baragouin.
Talk about this word "baragouin." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/baragouin. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. baragouin. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/baragouin "baragouin." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/baragouin.Cite this
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title = {baragouin},
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