jargoneer
jargoneer noun: a person who uses a great deal of jargon when speaking or writing, especially one who seems to relish such a manner of expression.
Noun
jargoneer (plural jargoneers)
- A person who uses a great deal of jargon when speaking or writing, especially one who seems to relish such a manner of expression.
- ‘How excellent a thing is sleep,’ sighed Sancho Panza; ‘it wraps a man round like a cloak’—an excellent example, by the way, of how to say a thing concretely: a Jargoneer would have said that ‘among the beneficent qualities of sleep its capacity for withdrawing the human consciousness from the...1914, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “Interlude: On Jargon”, in On the Art of Writing
- A friend of mine had a slight skin rash she couldn't identify, so she went to a real Jargoneer. He scowled at the rash, went "Hmmm" several times, then made a couple of sorties into his lab. . . . Finally he came back and informed her impressively that she was suffering from an Indeterminate...1955 Oct. 2, Hannah Smith, "The Doctors Who Try Our Patience," Youngstown Vindicator (US), Parade section, p. 8 (retrieved 20 Nov 2012)
Examples of jargoneer in a sentence
- A friend of mine had a slight skin rash she couldn't identify, so she went to a real Jargoneer.1955 Oct. 2, Hannah Smith, "The Doctors Who Try Our Patience," Youngstown Vindicator (US), Parade section, p. 8 (retrieved 20 Nov 2012)
- Partnering, along with its less irritating cousin "partnership", crops up all over the place, being equally useful to the lazy jargoneer and the lazy policy-maker.2003 November 21, Tim Homfray, “What do they mean...”, in Times Educational Supplement, UK, retrieved 20 Nov 2012:
Synonyms of jargoneer
Forms of jargoneer
| plural | jargoneers |
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Origin of jargoneer
From jargon + -eer.
Words that rhyme with jargoneer
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Questions about jargoneer
- What does jargoneer mean?
- Jargoneer means a person who uses a great deal of jargon when speaking or writing, especially one who seems to relish such a manner of expression.
- How do you use jargoneer in a sentence?
- A friend of mine had a slight skin rash she couldn't identify, so she went to a real Jargoneer.
- What part of speech is jargoneer?
- Jargoneer is a noun.
- What is the plural of jargoneer?
- The plural of jargoneer is jargoneers.
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