jargon
jargon is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.
- 2.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. Longfellow.
- 3.A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- abuse
- accent
- alogy
- ambiguity
- anagram
- anticlimax
- antiphrasis
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- babu
- barbarism
- bathos
- black
- blunder
- boutade
- brogue
- broken
- bull
- byword
- call
- cant
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- confusion
- contradictory
- corruption
- delusion
- dialect
- disorder
- dog
- double
- egregious
- escapade
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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