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jargon
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d???.??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d???.??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n
- Hyphenation: jar?gon
Etymology 1
From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
Noun
jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)
- (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
- (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
Synonyms
- (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk
- vernacular
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)
- To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
Etymology 2
Noun
jargon (plural jargons)
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”)
Further reading
- Jargon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Jargon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- "jargon" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 174.
Dutch
Etymology
From Old French jargon (“chatter, talk, language”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?r???n/
- Hyphenation: jar?gon
Noun
jargon n (plural jargons, diminutive jargonnetje n)
- A jargon, specialised language
Finnish
(index ja)
Etymology
Borrowed from English jargon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j?r?on/, [?j?r?o?n]
- Rhymes: -?r?on
- Syllabification: jar?gon
Noun
jargon
- jargon
Declension
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?.???/
Etymology 1
From Old French jargon, gargun ("cheeping of birds"), from a root *garg expressing the sound of the throat or referring to it. See gargouille, gargariser, gargoter.
The initial /?/ sound comes from a softening of /g/, as in jambe
Noun
jargon m (plural jargons)
- jargon, specialised or unintelligible language
Derived terms
- jargonner
- jargonnesque
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Italian giargone. Doublet of zircon.
Noun
jargon m (plural jargons)
- jargon, a zircon type
Descendants
- ? Catalan: jargó
- ? English: jargoon
- ? German: Jargon
- ? Greek: ??????? (giarkón)
- ? Russian: ??????? (žargón)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ??????
- Latin: žargon, jargon
- ? Spanish: jergón
References
“jargon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
jargon
- Alternative form of jargoun.
Old French
Noun
jargon m (oblique plural jargons, nominative singular jargons, nominative plural jargon)
- talk; chatter; conversation; talking
Descendants
- French: jargon
- ? Czech: žargon
- ? Dutch: jargon
- ? English: jargon
- ? Esperanto: ?argono
- ? German: Jargon
- ? Hungarian: zsargon
- ? Macedonian: ?????? (žargon)
- ? Polish: ?argon
- ? Portuguese: jargão
- ? Russian: ??????? m (žargón)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ????????
- Latin: žàrg?n
- ? Spanish: jerga
- ? Swedish: jargong
- ? Turkish: jargon
Romanian
Etymology
From French jargon
Noun
jargon n (plural jargoane)
- jargon, slang
Declension
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French jargon.
Noun
jargon (definite accusative jargonu, plural jargonlar)
- jargon
Synonyms
- argo
Volapük
Noun
jargon
- gibberish
- A jargon, specialised language
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spiff
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
spiff (countable and uncountable, plural spiffs)
- (uncountable) Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
- Without a diploma, he relies on spiff alone to climb the corporate ladder.
- (countable, archaic, slang) A well-dressed man; a swell.
- (countable, commerce, slang) A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer.
- (countable, colloquial, Jamaican) Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”)
- 2000, Leone Ross, Tasting Songs, in Dark Matter (ed. Sheree R. Thomas), p. 76:
- She rolled a spiff for us as she spoke, sifting the ganja between her fingers […]
- 2000, Leone Ross, Tasting Songs, in Dark Matter (ed. Sheree R. Thomas), p. 76:
Verb
spiff (third-person singular simple present spiffs, present participle spiffing, simple past and past participle spiffed)
- (transitive, informal) (usually with up or out) To make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date)
- (transitive, commerce, slang) To reward (a salesperson) with a spiff or bonus.
- (transitive, commerce, slang) To attach a spiff or bonus to the selling of (a product)
- (transitive, informal) To throw; to heave.
- I spiffed the turf over the edge and it went straight through the window and hit the officer.
Synonyms
- spruce (as in spruce up)
Derived terms
- spiff up
- spiffy
See also
- spliff
Anagrams
- piffs
spiff From the web:
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