Jargon

Noun

 * 1)  A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
 * 2)  Language characteristic of a particular group.
 * 3)  Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

Synonyms

 * argot, cant, slang
 * vernacular

Derived terms

 * jargonaut

Noun

 * 1) A variety of zircon

Adjectives for Jargon
wretched; broken; unscientific; courtly; meaningless; commonplace; unintelligible; barbarous; infernal; pitiful; busy.

Verbs for Jargon
babble—; chatter—; despise—; interpret—; master—; prate—; ring with—; translate.

Thesaurus
Aesopian language, Babel, Beach-la-mar, Greek, Kitchen Kaffir, Oregon Jargon, Sabir, abracadabra, absurdity, amphigory, argot, auxiliary language, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, bosh, bull, bunk, cackle, cant, chatter, cipher, claptrap, code, colloquialize, crap, creole, creole language, creolized language, cryptogram, dialect, dictionary, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, humbug, idiom, interlanguage, jabber, jabberwocky, jargonize, jumble, koine, language, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, noise, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, phraseology, pidgin, pidgin English, piffle, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, scatology, scramble, secret language, skimble-skamble, slang, speak, speech, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, taboo language, talk, talkee-talkee, trade language, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, use language, vaporing, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language, waffling

Etymology 1
jargon:

Etymology 2
, from giargone:, from  زر گون:.

Alternative forms

 * jargoon

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, vaktaal, visserslatijn
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, szakzsargon, szakmai nyelv
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Greek: * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Irish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: gebrabbel, gewauwel,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: ακαταλαβίστικα


 * Hungarian: halandzsa,
 * Irish:
 * Russian:


 * : (muʂʈálaħ)  (1),  (luğa ğer mafhúma)  (2)
 * : 行話, 行话 (háng huà) (1, 2); 隱語, 隐语 (yǐn huà) or 黑話, 黑话 (hēihuà) (3)
 * : ĵargono, jargono
 * : jargon
 * : Jargon (1,2), Fachsprache  (1,2), Fachchinesisch (3)
 * : לְשׁוֹן מְקוּלְקֶלֶת (lašon mekulkelet), ז׳רְגוֹן (zhargon) ; נִיב מִקְצוֹעִי (niv miketzo‘i)
 * : bahasa kacau
 * : gergo


 * : 隠語 (ingo), 専門用語 (semmon’yōgo)
 * : (ẕaban-e ṯaḳassosi),  (ẕaban-e maḳfi)
 * : jargão
 * : istilahi
 * : jargon
 * : זשאַרגאָן (zhargon)

Noun

 * Chinese: 黃鋯石, 黄锆石 (jīng gào shí)
 * French: ,


 * Greek: γιαρκόν

Noun

 * 1) A jargon, specialised language

Noun

 * 1) jargon

Noun

 * 1) jargon, specialised or inintelligible language

Derived terms

 * jargonner
 * jargonnesque

Descendants

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * English:
 * Esperanto:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: jerga

Noun

 * 1) A jargon, zircon type

Etymology 1
From gargun: ("cheeping of birds"), from a root *garg expressing the sound of the throat or refering to it. See gargouille:, gargariser:, gargoter:. The initial /ʒ/ sound comes from a softening of /g/, as in jambe:

Etymology 2
From giargone:

Noun

 * 1) jargon

Derived terms

 * Fachjargon

Etymology
From jargon:

Noun

 * 1) gibberish
 * 2) A jargon, specialised language