Another word for jargon
jargon
n.
Unintelligible, trite, or pretentious speech
gibberish, mumbo jumbo, bombast, gobbledygook*; see cliché, nonsense 1.
Hybrid language
patois, dialect, idiom, pidgin English, broken English, creole, vernacular, koine, lingua franca, Chinook jargon, calque, lingo*; see also dialect, language 1.
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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Another word for jargon
Unintelligible or foolish talk:
babble, blather, blatherskite, double talk, gabble, gibberish, jabber, jabberwocky, nonsense, prate, prattle, twaddle. See wordsA variety of a language that differs from the standard form:
argot, cant2, dialect, lingo, patois, vernacular. See wordsSpecialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture:
argot, cant2, dialect, idiom, language, lexicon, lingo, patois, terminology, vernacular, vocabulary. See words
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