jargon
noun
- the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
- obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
- confused unintelligible language
- a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect
- a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/ / /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
noun
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
verb
Etymology: From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
- 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.”