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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
- A technical terminology unique to a particular subject. He used technical jargon but I managed to catch the drift of his argument.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).jargoon
Similar: jargon, language, parlance, phraseology, sublanguage, terminology