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jargonist

noun

Etymology

From jargon + -ist.

  1. inherited from jargoun
  2. suffixed as jargonist — “jargon + ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone who overuses jargon

    Someone who overuses jargon; one who uses cant or slang.

    • Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr . Gosport laughed, nothing in the language of Sir Sedley Clarendel, approaches this new Euphuism

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