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jargon

noun
/ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/UK/ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/US

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from jargoun

Definitions

  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.

    • 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

    Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

    • Cut the jargon and get to your point.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To utter jargon

      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.
      • [T]he noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]

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

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Derived

blargon, cyberjargon, Eurojargon, jargonal, jargon aphasia, jargonaphasia, jargonaut, jargoneer, jargoner, jargonese, jargonesque, jargonic, jargonisation, jargonise, jargonish, jargonist, jargonistic, jargonitis, jargonium, jargonization, jargonize, jargonless, jargony, psychojargon, technojargon

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at jargon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at jargon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at jargon

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA