Definitions For Baragouin

Noun

BARAGOUIN (plural s) (countable) A pidgin. (uncountable, specifically, historical) A pidgin speak, spoken by french and first nations people in the 17th century in the region of north america now called montreal. {{quote-book, en, author=G[eorge] W[illiam] Featherstonhaugh, authorlink=George William Featherstonhaugh, chapter=XXI, title=A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an Account of the Lead and Copper Deposits in Wisconsin; of the Gold Region in the Cherokee County; and Sketches of Popular Manners; &c. &c. &c. [...] In Two Volumes, location=London, publisher=w:richard bentley (publisher), richard bentley, {{w, New Burlington Street}}, publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty, year=1847, volume=I, page=217, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=93EFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA217, oclc=85809923, passage=[T]he French he uttered was such a baragouin as would not be comprehended if it were put down on paper; {{...}}}} {{quote-book, en, author=Patrick C. Douaud, title=Ethnolinguistic Profile of the Canadian Métis, series=w:canadian museum of history, national museum of man, Mercury Series, Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service), seriesvolume=no. 99, location=[Ottawa, Ont.], publisher=w:national museums of canada, national museums of canada, year=1985, page=46, issn=0316-1854, oclc=11956135, passage=French and Cree have long been native languages to the Metis, and therefore are fully adapted to their traditional cultures. This situation is in marked contrast with the transitory code known as baragouin, a pidgin used by French and Indian groups in the Montreal region in the 17th century{{nb...}}.}} {{quote-book, en, author=Wendel Messer, chapter=The Cry of ‘Mercanteria’, title=The Conquest of Canada: A Novel of Discovery, edition=Champlain, location=Gravenhurst, Ont., publisher=Breller Books, year=2006, section=part IV (The Monks do Battle), page=224, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDDN2xKeNCMC&pg=PA224, isbn=978-0-9730094-2-2, passage="No one buy Claude his goods now," Cherou-ouny said. "Him think only skins. Too much hurry. Too much mercanteria!" / "What's wrong?" said Jean. / "It's baragouin, Jean, my boy. It means we're too forward in pushing our wares. Let's go back to our tent. Tomorrow we'll try again."}} (uncountable) unintelligible, unintelligible speech; gibberish, jargon.