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PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | Dale-USA |
E-mail: | dale_thomas2004@yahoo.com.br |
Data: | 11/JAN/2012 11:26 PM |
Assunto: | Little Richard song |
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MERRIAM-WEBSTER Main Entry: 1jive Pronunciation Guide Pronunciation: ![]() ![]() Function: noun Inflected Form(s): -s Etymology: origin unknown 1 a slang : glib, deceptive, or foolish talk b : the jargon of narcotics addicts or of jazz music and nightclub life c : a special jargon of difficult or slang terms <a sort of academic jive interlarded with lengthy and undigested quotations -- Dwight MacDonald> 2 : hot jazz or the jitterbugging sometimes performed to it ![]() Main Entry: pa·tois Pronunciation Guide Pronunciation: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural patois \-wäz\ Etymology: French, from Old French, peasant speech, probably from pate, patte paw + -ois (as in françois French) -- more at PATTEN 1 a : a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect <the polyglot patois of a Balkan borderland -- American Guide Series: Minnesota> b : illiterate or provincial speech 2 : the characteristic special language of an occupational or social group or of the followers of a sport or other interest : CANT, JARGON <the deportment and language of the gangsters and their "molls" was aped ... by the "swells", and the patois of prison yard and call house became the lingua franca of society -- Polly Adler> synonym see DIALECT |