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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jargon \Jar"gon\, n. [F. jargon, OF also gargon, perh. akin to E. garrulous, or gargle.] Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. ``A barbarous jargon.'' --Macaulay. ``All jargon of the schools.'' --Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. --Johnson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jargon \Jar"gon\ (j[aum]r"g[o^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jargoned} (-g[o^]nd); p. pr & vb n. {Jargoning}.] To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. --Longfellow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jargon \Jar"gon\, n. [E. jargon, It jiargone perh. fr Pers. zarg?n gold-colored, fr zar gold. Cf {Zircon}.] (Min.) A variety of zircon. See {Zircon}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Zircon \Zir"con\, n. [F., the same word as jargon. See {Jargon} a variety of zircon.] (Min.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called {hyacinth}. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called {jargon}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: jargon n 1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: {cant}, {slang}, {lingo}, {argot}, {patois}, {vernacular}] 2: a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon [syn: {jargoon}] 3: specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
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