jargon synonyms

jargon

n.

  1. Unintelligible, trite, or pretentious speech

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

  2. Hybrid language

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

  3. Specialized vocabulary

    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 syn. study at dialect.

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