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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

... was forwarded to him a suggestion from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position. It was when this patronage was declined that the Premier (dropping for a moment into that bushman's jargon which came naturally to him) said, irritably, that Louis Bachelor was a "old fossil who didn't know when he'd got his dover in the dough," which, being interpreted into the slang of the old world, means, his knife into the official loaf. But the fossil went on as before, known ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... us. I had invited the clergyman, and a German gentleman who was lodging with him, to give us the pleasure of their company; and in ten minutes we had all become the best of friends. It is true the conversation was carried on in rather a wild jargon, made up of six different languages—Icelandic, English, German, Latin, Danish, French—but in spite of the difficulty with which he expressed himself, it was impossible not to be struck with the simple earnest ...

— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... Fry! Why go to Newgate? Why Preach to poor rogues? And wherefore not begin With Carlton, or with other houses? Try Your hand at hardened and imperial Sin. To mend the People's an absurdity, A jargon, a mere philanthropic din, Unless you make their betters better:—Fie! I thought you had more ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... postage paid, if he will only send his address. The title of the book being of some such character as "Manhood Regained," or "Nervous Debility," he imagines it may suit his case, and sends his name. Return mail brings the book, which is a wretched jargon of confused terms and appalling descriptions of the effects of self-abuse, with the most shameful exaggerations of the significance of the most trivial symptoms. The ignorant youth reads what he supposes to be a description of his own case, and is frightened ...

— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... is soon explained. We find the Shakespearean name with their thoughts and deeds turned into operatic jargon. ...

— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley

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