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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A confused chattering or gabbling; a twittering of birds.
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Examples
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Back in 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission first proposed beefing up and de-jargoning the disclosure forms that financial advisers provide to new and prospective clients, where they describe their services, fees, business practices and conflicts of interest.
Just the Facts... 2008
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Yonder, in that clump of alders by the brook, is the delicious jargoning of the first flock of yellow-birds; there are the little gentlemen in black and yellow, and the little ladies in olive-brown; "sweet, sweet, sweet" is the only word they say, and often they will so lower their ceaseless warble, that, though almost within reach, the little minstrels seem far away.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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The beautiful blush rose, opening fresh and rosy on a dewy June morning, echoes gleefully the birds '' secret jargoning. '
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Shoals of low-jargoning men drift inward to the sound
Concert Party 1920
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In Mrs. Austen's drawing-room, with “Sidney Smith guffawing,” and “other people prating, jargoning, to me through these thin cobwebs Death and Eternity sate glaring.”
The Jesus of History Glover, T R 1916
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Down at last and out in the sun, we found Edward before us, swinging on a gate, and chanting a farm-yard ditty in which all the beasts appear in due order, jargoning in their several tongues, and every verse begins with the couplet --
The Golden Age 1915
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Shoals of low-jargoning men drift inward to the sound --
Georgian Poetry 1918-19 Various 1912
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Sometimes a-dropping from the skyI heard the skylark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemd to fill the sea and airWith their sweet jargoning!
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In the midst of such scenes come blessed memories of a real world, of the beauty of unappreciated things, such as the "sweet jargoning" of birds:
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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The lawns were taking on their summer emerald, robins were piping in the maples, and down in the cottonwoods and lindens on the river front crows and jays were jargoning their immemorial and cheery lingo.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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