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jargony

jargony adjective: typified by jargon; difficult to understand.

Adjective

jargony (comparative jargonier, superlative jargoniest)

  1. (informal) Typified by jargon; difficult to understand.
    • I studied parts of plants and bones so that I could accurately describe in the jargoniest of jargon every single species-specific part from petiole to scapula, from tibia to sepal.2017, Michael W. Twitty, “No More Whistling Walk for Me”, in The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, New York, N.Y.: Amistad, →ISBN, page 21
    • He [Bill Hunt Gross] identified market inefficiencies around which he was able to structure trades that, over decades, wrung out extra basis points. He helpfully described these strategies himself in a 2005 paper and in his keynote speech at the 2014 Morningstar conference. “Structural alpha,” he...2022 May 6, Mary Childs, “Was the ‘Bond King’ Great?”, in Institutional Investor, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2024

Forms of jargony

comparativejargonier
superlativejargoniest

Origin of jargony

From jargon + -y.

Questions about jargony

What does jargony mean?
Jargony means typified by jargon; difficult to understand.
What part of speech is jargony?
Jargony is an adjective.

Words near jargony in the dictionary

  1. jargonized
  2. jargonizes
  3. jargonizing
  4. jargonless
  5. jargons
  6. jargony
  7. jargoon
  8. jargoons
  9. jarhead
  10. jarheads
  11. jari

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