baragouin

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I am sick of signals and ciphers and secret meetings and such _baragouin_.

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  • In the glow of the open doorway stood a young girl,--gracile, tall,--with singularly splendid eyes,--brown eyes peeping at him from beneath a golden riot of loose hair M'sieu-le-Docteur, maman d'mande si vous n'avez besoin d'que'que chose 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. —  Chita: a Memory of Last Island
  • I am sick of signals and ciphers and secret meetings and such _baragouin_. —  Roads of Destiny
  • The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it .... —  Two Years in the French West Indies
  • 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. —  Chita: a Memory of Last Island
 

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  1. French, said to be from Breton bara, bread, + gwīn, wine, olgwenn, white, “in reference to the astonishment of Breton soldiers at the sight of white bread”; but this reads like a popular etymology, with the usual fictitious anecdote appended. The word may be merely imitative.
 

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