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jargon¹

  • /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/ UK
  • /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/ Canada, US
  • /ˈdʒɐː.ɡən/ Australia, New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)ɡən

Where it comes from

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).

noun jargons

  1. uncountable A technical terminology unique to a particular subject. He used technical jargon but I managed to catch the drift of his argument.
  2. countable A language characteristic of a particular group. They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they e
  3. uncountable Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish. Cut the jargon and get to your point.

Similar: vernacular, jargon, language, parlance, phraseology, sublanguage, terminology

verb jargons · jargoning · jargoned

  1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds. Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].

jargon²

  • /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/ UK
  • /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/ Canada, US
  • /ˈdʒɐː.ɡən/ Australia, New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)ɡən

noun jargons

  1. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).jargoon

Similar: jargon, language, parlance, phraseology, sublanguage, terminology

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