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/dʒˈɑrgən/ Listen

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

... amongst themselves a special language borrowed from the conversation of the studios, the jargon of behind the scenes, and the discussions of the editor's room. All the eclecticisms of style are met with in this unheard of idiom, in which apocalyptic phrases jostle cock and bull stories, in which the rusticity of a popular saying is wedded to extravagant ...

— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger

... who hardly noticed that this dead old man had come to life, the speech was jargon. The playwright was preoccupied with the fact that Talbot Potter was still on the stage, would continue there until the rather distant end of the act, and that the "ingenue," after completing the little run at her exit, had ...

— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington

... the trouble lay. The terse expressive jargon of the race track, its dry humor just beneath its hard surface, might delight the unsophisticated, but not Blister. To him it ...

— Blister Jones • John Taintor Foote

... blaze, listening to the songs of some wandering fiddler or to the stories of a ruddy-nosed Capuchin monk who was being regaled, by the steward's orders, on a supper of tripe and mulled wine. The Capuchin's tales, told in the Piedmontese jargon, and seasoned with strange allusions and boisterous laughter, were of little interest to Odo, who would creep into the ingle beside Bruno and beg for some story of his ancestors. The old man was never weary of rehearsing the feats and gestures ...

— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton

... which possesses some of the beauties of the old languages, will be systematically spoilt and stripped by these worthless contemporary scribblers, until, little by little, it becomes impoverished, crippled, and reduced to a miserable jargon. ...

— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

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