jargon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

   I can't understand all that medical jargon.

2. 2
   noun

   a characteristic language of a particular group

   All cultures develop their own jargon, which outsiders have difficulty understanding.

3. 3
   noun

   A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.

   Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.

4. 4
   noun

   A language characteristic of a particular group.

   They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.

5. 5
   verb

   To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.

   Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].

6. 6
   noun

   a colorless, pale yellow, or smoky variety of zircon

7. 7
   noun

   Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

8. 8
   noun

   Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).

Etymology

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).