pidgin English UK /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn ˌɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/US /ˈpɪ.dʒən ˌɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ noun3 •The Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the Chinese and Southeast Asian coastal region. •Any English-lexifier pidgin.They’ve picked up pidgin-English from the few old regulars I keep about the place and speak it much better than the old hands themselves. — 1937 •Any very basic English; broken English. formspidgin Englishes