Word Meanings - JARGONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.

Related words: (words related to JARGONIST)

• SLANGINESS
  Quality of being slangy.
• JARGON
  Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.
• ADDICT
  Addicted; devoted.
• JARGONELLE
  A variety of pear which ripens early.
• SLANGOUS
  Slangy. John Bee.
• SLANG
  imp. of Sling. Slung.
• SLANGY
  Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.
• JARGONIC
  Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
• ADDICTEDNESS
  The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
• JARGONIST
  One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.
• ADDICTION
  The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.
• BOOMSLANGE
  A large South African tree snake . Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.