jargon

noun

1. (uncountable)A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.

   “Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.”

   “That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.”

2. (countable)A language characteristic of a particular group.

   “They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.”

   “In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.”

3. (uncountable)Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

   “Cut the jargon and get to your point.”

4. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).

verb

1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.

   “Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].”

   “Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.”

   “[T]he noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]”