Tây Bồi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An extinct French pidgin formerly spoken in Vietnam, especially by servants during the colonial era.

Word forms

Tây Bồi

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Tây Bồi, from tây (“Western, especially French”) + bồi (“servant”), probably ultimately from English boy.

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