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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

J`ARGON, n.
1. Confused, unintelligible talk or language; gabble; gibberish; cant.
All jargon of the schools.
2. A mineral, usually of a gray or greenish white color, in small irregular grains, or crystallized in quadrangular prisms surmounted with pyramids, or in octahedrons consisting of double quadrangular prisms. [See Zircon.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular]
2: a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon [syn: jargoon, jargon]
3: specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French jargun, gargon Date: 14th century 1. a. confused unintelligible language b. a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect c. a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech 2. the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group 3. obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words • jargony adjective II. intransitive verb Date: 14th century 1. twitter, warble 2. jargonize

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 words or expressions used by a particular group or profession (medical jargon). 2 barbarous or debased language. 3 gibberish. Derivatives: jargonic adj. jargonistic adj. jargonize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). Etymology: ME f. OF: orig. unkn. 2. n. (also jargoon) a translucent, colourless, or smoky variety of zircon. Etymology: F f. It. giargone, prob. ult. formed as ZIRCON

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jargon Jar"gon, n. [F. jargon, OF. also gargon, perh. akin to E. garrulous, or gargle.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jargon Jar"gon (j[aum]r"g[o^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jargoned (-g[o^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Jargoning.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jargon Jar"gon, n. [E. jargon, It. jiargone; perh. fr. Pers. zarg?n gold-colored, fr. zar gold. Cf. Zircon.] (Min.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Zircon Zir"con, n. [F., the same word as jargon. See Jargon a variety of zircon.] (Min.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use jargon to refer to words and expressions that are used in special or technical ways by particular groups of people, often making the language difficult to understand. The manual is full of the jargon and slang of self-improvement courses.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Gabble, gibberish, rigmarole, non-sense, balderdash, twaddle, palaver, flummery, moonshine, wishwash, trash, stuff, unintelligible talk. 2. Slang, cant. 3. Confusion, disorder, jumble, chaos, disarray.

Moby Thesaurus

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