jargon

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  1. noun Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk.
  2. noun A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin.
  3. noun The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. See Synonyms at dialect.
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  • Morning all, I am, a complete newbie to this so please bear with me if my jargon is a little dated. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • Choosing a TV can be hard, but trying to come to terms with all the jargon is even tougher. —  CNET Australia
  • In the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources 'technical jargon, the lower Platte River basin was "fully appropriated." —  News from www.nptelegraph.com
  • Refrain from using jargon, acronyms, or abbreviations. —  Chronicle.com - Today's News
  • (In technical jargon, an anti-cloak would be anisotropic negative refractive index material that is impedance matched to the positive refractive index of the invisibility cloak). —  Scientific Blogging
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phraseology ·  dialect ·  terminology ·  babble ·  nonsense ·  lingo ·  gibberish ·  slang ·  cant ·  chatter ·  idiom ·  rhetoric
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  1. Middle English jargoun, from Old French jargon, probably of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English jargoun, gargoun, jargon, jergon, chattering, from Old French jargon, gergon, Frenchjargon, gibberish, peddlers' French, orig. ‘chattering,’ = Italian gergo, gergone, jargon (cf. Spanish gerigonza = Portuguese geringonça, jargon), later Old French (also F.) jargonner, chatter as birds, later speak gibberish. jangle, chatter, babble confusedly (cf. Spanish gerigonzar, speak a jargon); perhaps a reduced reduplication of the root appearing in L. garrire, chatter, prattle, talk, croak (as a frog), sing (as a nightingale), etc.: see jar and garrulous.
  2. from Middle English jargonen, jargounen, from Old French jargonner, jargon; from the noun.
  3. Also jargoon; from French jargon, from Italian giargone, a sort of yellow diamond, perhaps from Persian zargūn, gold-colored, from zar, gold, + gūn, quality, color. Cf. zircon.
 

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