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单词 argot
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argot

noun

ar·​got ˈär-(ˌ)gō How to pronounce argot (audio) -gət How to pronounce argot (audio)
: the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
He has been bombarded by thousands of scathing messages—known as being "flamed" in the argot of cyberspace. Peter H. Lewis

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We borrowed argot from French in the early 1800s, although our language already had several words covering its meaning. There was jargon, the Anglo-French ancestor of which meant "twittering of birds"; it had been used for specialized (and often obscure or pretentious) vocabulary since the 1600s. There was also lingo, from the Latin word lingua, meaning "language"; that term had been in use for more than a century. English novelist and lawyer Henry Fielding used it of "court gibberish"—what we tend to call legalese. And speaking of legalese, the suffix -ese is a newer means of indicating arcane vocabulary. One of its very first applications at the turn of the 20th century was for "American 'golfese.'"

Synonyms

  • cant
  • dialect
  • jargon
  • jive
  • language
  • lingo
  • patois
  • patter
  • shop
  • shoptalk
  • slang
  • terminology
  • vocabulary
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Example Sentences

groups communicating in their own secret argots used the argot of figure skaters
Recent Examples on the Web The world of mainstream Democratic politics gives voice to these sentiments in a more familiar argot, one aimed at voters rather than activists. New York Times, 8 June 2022 Every generation develops a new argot to separate itself from the one before. Kevin Fisher-paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2022 Not sentences alone but entire paragraphs as beautifully and intricately constructed as a Rube Goldberg machine, with cliché backing into argot flirting with Broadway slang, Yiddish and British pretension side by side. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2021 Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing, which is told entirely in Slack chats, so perfectly captured the specific argot of that medium, and went so far with its bizarro premise but managed to deliver. ELLE, 17 Mar. 2022 Her speech—casual, chatty—is inflected with the argot of the Washington policy circuit. Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022 Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (or JCPOA, in the argot) was a disastrous move that has put Iran within disturbingly close range of becoming a nuclear power. Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022 While these long motion-capture sequences crackle with thrilling technical argot and are pretty interesting in themselves, the real plot lies elsewhere. Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021 In the argot of Communist politics, the session that began on November 8th is the sixth plenum of the Nineteenth Central Committee. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

French

First Known Use

1825, in the meaning defined above

argot

noun

as in terminology
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field used the argot of figure skaters

Synonyms & Similar Words

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