Patois
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago& Haiti). A Jamaican Creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
Cant
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: lively, lusty.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.To speak in set phrases.To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.To set (something) at an angle.To bevel an edge or corner.To overturn so that the contents are emptied.To divide or parcel out.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.Shelta.Empty, hypocritical talk.Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name of the bearer.corner, nicheslope, the angle at which something is set.A movement or throw that overturns something.
Example sentence: There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads.