mark has-his-own patwa Baileypat·ois(ptwä, p-twä)
n. pl. pat·ois (ptwäz, p-twä)
1. A regional dialect, especially one without a literary tradition.
2.
a. A creole.
b. Nonstandard speech.
3. The special jargon of a group; cant. See Synonyms at dialect.
[French, from Old French, possibly from pate, paw, from Vulgar Latin *patta, perhaps of imitative origin.]
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Stargzer
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So that would make a patois de foie gras an especially verbose regional dialect?
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