| 释义 |
jargonaut, n. colloq.|ˈdʒɑːgəˌnɔːt|
[Humorously f. jargon n.1 + -naut, after argonaut n.; cf. Juggernaut n.]
A person who uses an excessive amount of jargon.
1963N. Y. Times 9 July 29/1 Mr. Williams sketches them with what, in the current idiom of the jargonauts, is called an expert, lucid meaningfulness. 1977Lancet 9 July 81/2 The Transatlantic Fowler has taken on the jargonauts with a fair measure of success. His first book, Strictly Speaking, indicted America as responsible for the imminent demise of the English language. 1980Daily Tel. 11 July 15/2 The burly Bolz is a heavy jargonaut bubbling over with such enjoyable obscurities as ‘the negative Stockholm syndrome’. 1992Discover Feb. 24/2 I'd also worry that Americans in general and aerospace types in particular are jargonauts and acronymphomaniacs. An international partner could, for example, easily confuse PMC with PMS. |