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noun

Jargon n.

Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish. "A barbarous jargon." "All jargon of the schools."

Hence: An artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. Especially, An idiom with frequent use of informal technical terms, such as acronyms, used by specialists. "All jargon of the schools." "The jargon which serves the traffickers."

Jargon n. (Min.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon.

verb

Jargon v. i. (past & past part. jargoned; pres. part. 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."

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"Jargon" Quotes from Famous Books

... their dupes. But if we quote the lines of La Pucelle, why not also the article[119] in the Dictionnaire Philosophique, which contains three pages of profounder truth and nobler thought than certain voluminous modern works in which Voltaire is insulted in clerical jargon? ...

— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... father of the French pale-faces. Neither the Legs nor the Sailor cared for the gayety and the crowd of cities; the stout mariner's home was in the puttock-shrouds of the old "Repudiator." The stern and simple trapper loved the sound of the waters better than the jargon of the French of the old country. "I can follow the talk of a Pawnee," he said, "or wag my jaw, if so be necessity bids me to speak, by a Sioux's council-fire and I can patter Canadian French with the hunters ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... been everywhere; he knows the best wine at every inn in every capital in Europe; lives with the best English company there; has seen every palace and picture-gallery from Madrid to Stockholm; speaks an abominable little jargon of half-a-dozen languages—and knows nothing—nothing. Bull hunts tufts on the Continent, and is a sort of amateur courier. He will scrape acquaintance with old Carabas before they make Ostend; and will remind his lordship that he met him at Vienna twenty years ago, ...

— The Book of Snobs • William Makepeace Thackeray

... will give it to you for some beads, when it is done!" said Lucie, in the same imperfect jargon, stooping her head low, and concealing her hands lest ...

— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... jargon and conceit, With tongue as prompt to lie as The veriest mountebank and cheat, ...

— Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February 2, 1850 • Various

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