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English

Noun

jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)

  • (uncountable) 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.1
    • ✤ 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
  • (countable) 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.3
    • ✤ In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.4
  • (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
    • ✤ Cut the jargon and get to your point.

Verb

jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle 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 […].5
    • ✤ Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.6
    • ✤ [T]he noisy jay,/Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]7

Noun

jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
  • Audio (General American): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡən
  • Hyphenation: jar‧gon

Etymology 1

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).

Etymology 2

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Footnotes

  1. 2018 June 13, Michael Schein, “Author Simon Sinek Is Full Of Hot Air (And Other Reasons You Should Follow His Lead)”, in Forbes ‎, archived from the original on 13 July 2020: ↩

  2. 2022 May 17, Rob Andrews, “Synology SRM 1.3 Software Review Part 4 – The Safe Access Application”, in NAS Compares ‎, archived from the original on 21 May 2022: ↩

  3. 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 11: ↩

  4. 2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today: ↩

  5. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes): ↩

  6. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Fatherland in Danger”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 184: ↩

  7. 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poet’s Tale. The Birds of Killingworth.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 195: ↩

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