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Moke vs Pidgin - What's the difference?

moke | pidgin |

As nouns the difference between moke and pidgin

is that moke is a donkey while pidgin is an amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.

moke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
    • (Thackeray)
  • *1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars , Folio Society 2005, p. 68:
  • *:the Colonel [...] had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.
  • A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A black person.

    • pidgin

    English

    (wikipedia pidgin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) an amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.

    • Related terms

    * pidgin English * Pijin

    Derived terms

    *

    See also

    * creole

    References

    External links

    * Pidgin English - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.