Jargon



GRE 蓝宝 Barron 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 行话
• ［英］ n. 行话 ( a language or dialect used by professions)
• ［类］ vernacular : place / jargon : profession ( 地方有方言 / 行业有行话)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French jargun, gargon
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. confused unintelligible language
  • b. a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect
  • c. a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech
• 2. the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
• 3. obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
• ? jargony adjective

II. intransitive verb

• Date: 14th century
• 1. twitter, warble
• 2. jargonize

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