jargonn.1
/ˈdʒɑːɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑrɡən/ 1. The inarticulate utterance of birds, or a vocal sound resembling it; twittering, chattering.This early sense, which became obsolete in the 15th cent., has been revived in modern literature, sometimes with a mixture of sense 5; cf. jargon v. 1.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > twitter or chirp > action of
chatteringa1250
writelingc1275
jargoning?a1366
chitteringc1374
jargonc1386
chirpingc1440
chirming1481
garrulingc1550
chirruping1579
twittering1773
twitteration1805
chippering1879
c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 604 He was al coltissh ful of ragerye And ful of Iargon [v.rr. Girgoun, -un] as a flekked pye.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 264 Sche [Medea] made many a wonder soun..And riht so as hir jargoun strangeth, In sondri wise hir forme changeth.
c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 3148 Thre ravenes hyghte adoun, And made a gret gargoun.
1830 H. W. Longfellow Return of Spring 6 With beast and bird the forest rings, Each in his jargon cries or sings.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xliii. 396 The snow-birds increase in numbers... It is delightful to hear their sweet jargon.
2. A jingle or assonance of rhymes. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > jingling of rhyme
jargon1570
jingle1661
chimea1674
ting-tang1686
ding-dong1709
clinka1716
tinkle1776
tintinnabulum1782
tink1890
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niv/2 Iargon, rime, fabula metrica.
1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 103 Later that evening some Power sent me to my writing-table, with a jargon of rhymes in my head.
3. Unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; nonsense, gibberish. (Often a term of contempt for something the speaker does not understand.)
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]
jargon1340
gibberishc1557
fustiana1593
hibber-gibber1593
rabble?1593
gabbling1599
rantum-scantum1599
ribble-rabble1601
gabble1602
High Dutch1602
Greek1603
baragouin1614
galimatias1653
riddle-me-ree1678
clink-clank1679
Hebrew1705
alieniloquy1727
jabber1735
mumbo-jumbo1738
gibbering1786
rigmarole1809
gibber1832
rigmarolery1833
Babelism1834
jargoning1837
barrikin1851
abracadabra1867
double Dutch1876
jabberwock1902
jabberwocky1908
jibber-jabber1922
mumbo-jumbery1923
mumbo1931
double-talk1938
garbology1944
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 462 Swiche wordus of wise we wilnun to lere, Þere nis no iargoun, no iangle, ne iuggementis falce.
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. iii. 66 Which we must remember the Romanists vnderstand by this Iargon.
1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified iii. 42 It had bene a thousand times more materiall then all this Iargon.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 651 When Religion and Theology..is made Philosophy, then is it all meer Jargon and Insignificant Non-sence.
1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 12 Alchymy..is found to be mere Jargon and Imposture.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 100 Cease, cease that jargon About sights seen in the city.
1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) iv. vii. 604 The laws of rating [in the case of railways and water-works]..are simply a mass of heterogeneous and contradictory jargon.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun]
cipher1528
steganography1569
polygraphy1593
jargon1594
cryptography1653
code1818
code language1875
society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > symbolic writing
jargon1594
signance1610
symbolics1657
symbolization1842
symbolism1864
symbolography1865
sematography1901
1594 F. Bacon in Life & Lett. (1862) I. 284 The letters aforesaid, written in jargon or verbal cipher.
1643 5 Yrs. K. James in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) V. 398 They had cyphers and jargons for the king and queen, and great men of the realm; things seldom used but either by Princes or their Confederates.
1678 S. Butler Ladies Answer to Knight in Hudibras: Third Pt. 267 I..can unriddle, by their Tones, Their Mystique Cabals, and Jargones.
1686 G. Burnet Lett. Present State Italy iv. 248 This Child hath by observing the motions of the Mouths and Lips of others, acquired so many words that out of these she hath formed a sort of Jargon in which she can hold conversation whole days with those that can speak her own Language.
5. A barbarous, rude, or debased language or variety of speech; a ‘lingo’; used esp. of a hybrid speech arising from a mixture of languages. Also applied contemptuously to a language by one who does not understand it.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > creole or mixed language
patroillart1340
mixed language1592
jargon1643
lingua franca1666
Frank1681
polyglot1715
olla podrida1850
pidgin1869
Creole1871
Mischsprache1930
creolized language1932
Melanesian Pidgin1942
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > corrupt language
Barbary1509
Datism1617
jargon1643
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §8 Besides the Jargon and Patois of severall Provinces, I understand no lesse then six Languages. View more context for this quotation
1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 131 She now mixes Italian, English, and Spanish with her own natural Language, and this makes such a Jargon [etc.].
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 19 Others had the Levant Jargon, which they call Lingua Frank.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. §86 A mingled dialect, like the jargon which serves the traffickers on the Mediterranean and Indian coasts.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. ii. 67 They [the pagans of antiquity] could discover in a foreign language nothing but a barbarous jargon.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. v. 184 The Negro jargon of the United States.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §3. 288 ‘Oxford Latin’ became proverbial for a jargon in which the very tradition of grammar had been lost.
6. Applied contemptuously to any mode of speech abounding in unfamiliar terms, or peculiar to a particular set of persons, as the language of scholars or philosophers, the terminology of a science or art, or the cant of a class, sect, trade, or profession.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon
language1502
term of art1570
fustiana1593
jargoning1623
jargon1651
speciality1657
lingo1659
cant1684
linguaa1734
patois1790
slang1801
shibboleth1829
glim-glibber1844
argot1860
gammy1864
patter1875
stagese1876
vernacular1876
palaver1909
babble1930
buzzword1946
in word1964
rabbit1976
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi Abstract essences and substantiall formes. For the interpreting of which Iargon, there is need of somewhat more than ordinary attention.
1704 in J. Swift Tale of Tub Bookseller to Rdr. It would..pass for little more than the cant or jargon of the trade.
1717 C. Bullock Woman is Riddle ii. 18 I see, Mr. Vulture, you are a perfect master in the jargon of the Law.
a1782 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. (ed. 6) (1785) II. App. 532 Space and time have occasioned much metaphysical jargon.
1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zicci ii I should tell you in their despicable jargon that my planet sat darkly in your house of life.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vii. 324 The jargon of the German mystic was exactly what he wanted in his present state of mind.
7.
a. A medley or ‘babel’ of sounds.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun]
noise?a1400
clattera1500
Babela1529
burlinga1533
burle1563
tintamarre1567
coil1582
flipper-de-flapper1640
clutter1655
Babel sound1710
jargon1711
charivari1735
oratorio?1737
hubbub1779
callithump1843
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶1 Our Soldiers..send us over Accounts of their Performances in a Jargon of Phrases, which they learn among their Conquered Enemies.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iv. 68 That savage jargon of yells, brays, and screams, familiarly, but feebly, termed, ‘The Cries of London’.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. viii. 143 Dissonant hubbub there is; jargon as of Babel.
b. transferred. Any mixture of heterogeneous elements. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture
hotchpotc1405
hodge-podgec1426
omnigatherum?a1430
mishmashc1475
peasemeala1525
omnium gatherum1530
mingle1548
hotchpotch1549
mingle-mangle1549
gallimaufry1551
rhapsody1574
sauce-medley1579
pell-mellc1586
linsey-woolsey1592
wilderness1594
brewage1599
motley1609
macaronic1611
medley1618
olla podridaa1635
farragoa1637
consarcination1640
porridge1642
olio1645
bisque1653
mélange1653
hash1660
jumble1661
farrage1698
capilotade1705
jargon1710
salmagundi1761
pasticcio1785
pea meal1789
ollapod1804
mixty-maxty1818
macédoine1820
ragbag1820
haggis1822
job lot1828
allsorts1831
conglomerate1837
pot-pourri1841
chow-chow1850
breccia1873
pastiche1873
macaroni1884
mixed bag1919
casserole1930
mixed bunch1958
rattle-bag1982
mulligan1993
1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 4. 37 Such a Jargon of Ideas, such an Inconsistency of Notions, such a Confusion of Particles that rather puzzle than connect the Sense.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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1729 R. Savage Wanderer 1 Sudden a thousand different jargon-sounds, Like jangling bells, harsh-mingling grate the ear.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 118 The Gloom Of cloyster'd Monks, and Jargon-teaching Schools.
1771 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 60 Little Mozart..immediately began five or six lines of a jargon recitative proper to introduce a love song.
1887 H. Knollys Sketches Life Japan 281 At the end of four months I should have been able..to go ahead with what I may call jargon fluency.
Derivatives
ˈjargonal adj. of the nature of jargon or sound without sense.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective]
gibberish1598
inarticulate1603
unarticulate1603
hi cockalorum1783
jargonal1831
jabberwocky1908
1831 in Mirror XVII. 299/1 Away, then, with the jargonal pretence that English singers cannot acquire a good and pure Italian pronunciation.
ˈjargonish adj. resembling or characteristic of a jargon.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to jargon > resembling jargon
jargonish1816
cantish1880
1816 Q. Rev. 16 28 That inflated and jargonish style which has of late prevailed.
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jargonjargoonn.2
/ˈdʒɑːɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /dʒɑrˈɡɑn/, /ˈdʒɑrɡən/ Brit. /dʒɑːˈɡuːn/, U.S. /dʒɑrˈɡun/ A translucent, colourless, or smoky variety of the mineral zircon, found in Sri Lanka.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > zircon > [noun]
jargon1769
zircon1794
zirconite1806
hyacinth1879
Matura diamond1886
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > nesosilicates > [noun] > zircon group > zircon
jargon1769
zircon1794
zirconite1806
Matara diamond1807
malacon1854
hyacinth1879
lavenite1886
α.
β. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 206 The hyacinth..consists..more than six-tenths of its weight of a peculiar earth, now known under the name of jargon, zircon, or circonia.1868–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1079 The name hyacinth includes the bright-coloured varieties of zircon;..the greyish or brownish kinds are called zirconite. A variety from Ceylon, which is colourless, or has only a smoky tinge, and is therefore sold for inferior diamonds, is sometimes called jargon.1769 Public Advertiser 29 May 3/4 Rough and polished Emeralds..Topazes, Jargoons.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1526 These borders are studded with..jargoon diamonds.
1883 A. H. Church Precious Stones iv. 28 The diamond and the jargoon do not improve or bring out each other's qualities, for they have too many points in common.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 215 The Zircon, the Hyacinth, and the Jargoon are silicates of zirconia.
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jargonv.
/ˈdʒɑːɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑrɡən/ 1.
a. intransitive. To warble, twitter, chatter. Obsolete from 15th to 19th centuries: see jargon n.1 1.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > chirp or twitter
chirmOE
chattera1250
janglea1300
jargon?a1366
chirkc1386
chirtc1386
chitterc1386
twittera1387
chirpc1440
yipc1440
channerc1480
quitter1513
chirrup1579
chipper1593
pip1598
gingreate1623
chita1639
sweet1677
shatter17..
swee-swee1839
weet-weet1845
cheet1855
tweet1856
twiddle1863
weet1866
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 716 These birdes..Laies of loue, full well souning Thei songen in her iargoning.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 318 She withall no word may soune But chitre and as a brid iargoune.
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. xiii The birdes that iargonned on the ryver..made her to slepe.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 30 All little birds that are How they seem'd to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning.
1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xv, in Wks. (1886) II. 335 A cage, in which sundry canary~birds..were jargoning together.
1892 A. Lang Grass of Parnassus 108 Far in dim fields cicalas jargoned.
b. transitive. To utter by warbling, warble.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > chirp or sing
bechirma1250
twittera1387
chitter1393
chatterc1400
bechirp1600
chirp1614
chirrupa1657
gambola1657
tweet1851
jargon1894
1894 Tablet 22 Dec. 966 Never mavis or merle Jargoned such roundelays.
2.
a. intransitive. To utter jargon; to talk unintelligibly.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)]
rabblea1400
javerc1440
jabber1499
jabble1570
jargon1570
gabble1574
gibberish1577
gibber1604
cant1728
jibber1824
rigmarole1831
to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899
garble1913
jibber-jabber1922
jabberwock1959
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Nivv/2 Iargon, nugari.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 13 69 If he jargons thus, he can expect nothing else.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets ii. 29 Disappear, I say; away, and jargon no more in that manner.
b. transitive. To utter in a jargon; to prate about in a jargon.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [verb (transitive)] > make into jargon or technical language
cant1592
jargon1805
jargonize1825
technicalize1852
1805 [see jargoned adj. at Derivatives].
1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 378 In such slang he jargons the characters of Shakspeare and Milton.
Derivatives
ˈjargoned adj.
ΚΠ
1805 Roberdean in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1806) IX. 249 The jargon'd phrase.
ˈjargoning n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > twitter or chirp > action of
chatteringa1250
writelingc1275
jargoning?a1366
chitteringc1374
jargonc1386
chirpingc1440
chirming1481
garrulingc1550
chirruping1579
twittering1773
twitteration1805
chippering1879
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon
language1502
term of art1570
fustiana1593
jargoning1623
jargon1651
speciality1657
lingo1659
cant1684
linguaa1734
patois1790
slang1801
shibboleth1829
glim-glibber1844
argot1860
gammy1864
patter1875
stagese1876
vernacular1876
palaver1909
babble1930
buzzword1946
in word1964
rabbit1976
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]
jargon1340
gibberishc1557
fustiana1593
hibber-gibber1593
rabble?1593
gabbling1599
rantum-scantum1599
ribble-rabble1601
gabble1602
High Dutch1602
Greek1603
baragouin1614
galimatias1653
riddle-me-ree1678
clink-clank1679
Hebrew1705
alieniloquy1727
jabber1735
mumbo-jumbo1738
gibbering1786
rigmarole1809
gibber1832
rigmarolery1833
Babelism1834
jargoning1837
barrikin1851
abracadabra1867
double Dutch1876
jabberwock1902
jabberwocky1908
jibber-jabber1922
mumbo-jumbery1923
mumbo1931
double-talk1938
garbology1944
?a1366 [see sense 1a].
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Gargoning, strange speaking.
1798 [see sense 1a]. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iv. 118 Mere idle jargoning, and sound and fury.
1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. 18 His ear was taken by the vibrant jargoning of the boatmen.
1890 O. Crawfurd Round Calendar in Portugal 28 He [the serin] fills the air of spring and early summer with his eager jargoning.
ˈjargoner n. one who uses jargon.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > one who uses
jargonist1782
jargoner1893
jargoneer1916
jargonaut1963
1893 W. G. Collingwood Life & Work J. Ruskin I. 110 He took it out of the hands of adepts and initiated jargoners.
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