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jargon
/ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
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What does jargon mean?
noun
- A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- A language characteristic of a particular group.
- Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
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verb
- To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
noun
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
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It was a strange jargon—the Lord’s Prayer repeated backwards—the incantation usual in proceedings for obtaining unhallowed assistance against an enemy.
From henceforth she could give herself up to the sentiments which, in pedantic and barbarous jargon, are called altruistic sentiments.
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Apply its means to any concrete fact of life, and this high dialect of the wise became a childish jargon.
The odd and often coarse jargon, the infinite variety in appearance and character, suggested again that humanity is a very tangled problem.
One morning I was just getting out of bed, "this gibberish, this jargon" as the enemy likes to call it, began to come.