Definition of Jargon

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Jargon

Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.

To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.

A variety of zircon. See Zircon.

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Jargon Quotations

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
Ezra Pound

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Irving Babbitt

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
Martin H. Fischer

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
John M. Smith

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Jargon Translations

jargon in Dutch is jargon, taaltje
jargon in French is jargon
jargon in Hungarian is zsargon
jargon in Spanish is jerga

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