Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a jargon; nonsensical: as, a jargonic phrase.
- Pertaining to the mineral jargon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the mineral
jargon .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Still we are forced to join Mr. Mathias, in the remonstrance he so justly makes as to the jargonic conceit of some of his language.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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The panic was intense, and was in no way lessened by the Chinese, who took to yelling in their own jargonic syllables.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Apart from the usual mixture of serious and purely jocular satire, of learning and licence, of jargonic catalogues, of local references to
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Cattle does have such a phrase, the technical term head of cattle, but it’s jargonic, generally limited to encyclopedias and agricultural reports.
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Cattle does have such a phrase, the technical term head of cattle, but it’s jargonic, generally limited to encyclopedias and agricultural reports.
What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar 2010
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And I’m ESPECIALLY glad that the bug-eyed monsters didn’t have special laser-beam head-gear and psycho mind frack powers with telekinesis where only a jargonic-jargon device could stop their evil plot!
Battlestar Galactica: Watched The Finale? Still Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers! 2009
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