All 3 Uses of
jargon
in
Bleak House
- Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- But now he can only whisper, and what he whispers sounds like what it is—mere jumble and jargon.†
Chpt 55-57
- With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(jargon) specialized terminology characteristic of a particular group such as doctors or thieves