jargon

UK /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/ US /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
noun 4verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.

Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.

That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.

2

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 employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.

In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.

3

Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

verb

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 […].

Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

noun

1

Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).

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