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Jargon

Jargon Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Jargon? [n] specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject [n] a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [n] a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon Synonyms \| Synonyms for Jargon: argot \| cant \| jargoon \| lingo \| patois \| slang \| vernacular Related Terms \| Find terms related to Jargon: abracadabra \| absurdity \| Aesopian language \| amphigory \| argot \| auxiliary language \| babble \| babblement \| Babel \| balderdash \| bavardage \| Beach-la-mar \| bibble-babble \| blabber \| blather \| bombast \| bosh \| bull \| bunk \| cackle \| cant \| chatter \| cipher \| claptrap \| code \| colloquialize \| crap \| creole \| creole language \| creolized language \| cryptogram \| dialect \| dictionary \| double Dutch \| double-talk \| drivel \| drool \| fiddledeedee \| fiddle-faddle \| flapdoodle \| flummery \| folderol \| fudge \| fustian \| gab \| gabble \| galimatias \| gammon \| garbage \| garble \| gibber \| gibberish \| gibble-gabble \| gift of tongues \| glossolalia \| gobbledygook \| Greek \| hocus-pocus \| hogwash \| humbug \| idiom \| interlanguage \| jabber \| jabberwocky \| jargonize \| jumble \| Kitchen Kaffir \| koine \| language \| lexicon \| lingo \| mumbo jumbo \| narrishkeit \| niaiserie \| noise \| nonsense \| Oregon Jargon \| pack of nonsense \| palaver \| parlance \| patois \| patter \| phraseology \| pidgin \| pidgin English \| piffle \| prate \| prattle \| rant \| rigamarole \| rigmarole \| rodomontade \| rot \| rubbish \| Sabir \| scatology \| scramble \| secret language \| skimble-skamble \| slang \| speak \| speech \| stuff and nonsense \| stultiloquence \| taboo language \| talk \| talkee-talkee \| trade language \| trash \| trumpery \| twaddle \| twattle \| twiddle-twaddle \| use language \| vaporing \| vernacular \| vocabulary \| vulgar language \| waffling See Also \| ecobabble \| Eurobabble \| expressive style \| gobbledygook \| non-standard speech \| psychobabble \| rhyming slang \| style \| technobabble \| zircon \| zirconium silicate Jargon In Webster's Dictionary \Jar"gon\, n. [F. jargon, OF. also gargon, perh. akin to E. garrulous, or gargle.] Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. ``A barbarous jargon.'' --Macaulay. ``All jargon of the schools.'' --Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. --Johnson. \Jar"gon\ (j[aum]r"g[o^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jargoned} (-g[o^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Jargoning}.] To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. --Longfellow. \Jar"gon\, n. [E. jargon, It. jiargone; perh. fr. Pers. zarg?n gold-colored, fr. zar gold. Cf. {Zircon}.] (Min.) A variety of zircon. See {Zircon}.

Jargon Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jargon?

[n] specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
[n] a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
[n] a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon

Jargon In Webster's Dictionary

\Jar"gon\, n. [F. jargon, OF. also gargon, perh. akin to
E. garrulous, or gargle.]
Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an
artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. ``A
barbarous jargon.'' --Macaulay. ``All jargon of the
schools.'' --Prior.

      The jargon which serves the traffickers. --Johnson.


\Jar"gon\ (j[aum]r"g[o^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Jargoned} (-g[o^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Jargoning}.]
To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds;
to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.

      The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.
                                               --Longfellow.


\Jar"gon\, n. [E. jargon, It. jiargone; perh. fr. Pers.
zarg?n gold-colored, fr. zar gold. Cf. {Zircon}.] (Min.)
A variety of zircon. See {Zircon}.

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