jargon

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. lingo, shoptalk, patois, cant, argot, jive (sl.); double-talk; gibberish. See concealment, unmeaningness.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Unintelligible, trite, or pretentious speech]

Syn. gibberish, mumbo jumbo, bombast, gobbledygook*; see cliché , nonsense 1 .

2. [Hybrid language]

Syn. patois, dialect, idiom, pidgin English, broken English, creole, vernacular, koine, lingua franca, Chinook jargon, calque, lingo*; see also dialect , language 1 .

3. [Specialized vocabulary]

Syn. argot, shoptalk, slang, colloquialism, neologism, coined word, coinage, cant, buzzword, officialese, legalese, bureaucratese, journalese, computerese, novelese, academese, medicalese, businesspeak, newspeak, pig Latin, dog Latin, patter, localism, rhyming slang, doubletalk, doublespeak, double Dutch, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, lingo*, gobbledygook*, slanguage*, psychobabble*, technobabble*; see also dialect , slang .

See Synonym Study at dialect .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. lingo vernacular, cant, argot, parlance, tongue, slang, idiom, dialect, phraseology, shop talk, *officialese, legalese.

2. gibberish gobbledygook, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, blather, babble, drivel, twaddle.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. Unintelligible or foolish talk: babble, blather, blatherskite, double talk, gabble, gibberish, jabber, jabberwocky, nonsense, prate, prattle, twaddle. See WORDS. 2. A variety of a language that differs from the standard form: argot, cant2, dialect, lingo, patois, vernacular. See WORDS. 3. Specialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture: argot, cant2, dialect, idiom, language, lexicon, lingo, patois, terminology, vernacular, vocabulary. See WORDS.