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jargoning

jargoning is the present participle and gerund of jargon.

Meaning of jargon

Verb

jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)

  1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
    • Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes)

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Noun

jargoning (plural jargonings)

  1. Unintelligible speech.
    • Wherefore, the language of Maramma was incessantly fluctuating; and had become so full of jargonings, that the birds in the groves were greatly puzzled; not knowing where lay the virtue of sounds, so incoherent.1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

Forms of jargoning

pluraljargonings

Questions about jargoning

What does jargoning mean?
Jargoning means unintelligible speech.
What is jargoning the present participle and gerund of?
Jargoning is the present participle and gerund of jargon.
What part of speech is jargoning?
Jargoning is a noun.
What is the plural of jargoning?
The plural of jargoning is jargonings.

Words near jargoning in the dictionary

  1. jargonese
  2. jargonesque
  3. jargonic
  4. jargonier
  5. jargoniest
  6. jargoning
  7. jargonings
  8. jargonisation
  9. jargonisations
  10. jargonise
  11. jargonised

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