jargon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Special words and phrases used by a particular profession or group that others find hard to understand.

   The report was full of legal jargon that ordinary readers couldn't follow.

2. 2
   noun

   Speech that sounds confused or makes no sense; gibberish.

   To an outsider, the technicians' conversation was meaningless jargon.

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Simplified etymology

Jargon comes from Old French jargoun, meaning “the warbling of birds.” In medieval English it meant “twittering” or “chattering” and also “gibberish”; the modern sense of language used by a particular group and difficult for outsiders to understand had developed by the 17th century.

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

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