All 11 Uses
jargon
in
Look Homeward, Angel
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- He had not even names for the objects around him: he probably defined them for himself by some jargon, reinforced by some mangling of the speech that roared about him, to which he listened intently day after day, realizing that his first escape must come through language.†
Chpt 1jargon = specialized vocabulary
- He hated the jargon of the profession, which she had picked up somewhere long before, and which she used constantly with such satisfaction—smacking her lips as she spoke of "transients," or of "drumming up trade."†
Chpt 1 *
- And Eugene noted, with the old baffling shame again, as this cheap tableau of self-conscious, robust, and raucously aggressive boyhood was posed, that, for all the mouthing of phrases, the jargon about fair play and sportsmanship, the weaker, at Leonard's, was the legitimate prey of the stronger.†
Chpt 2
- He could sell anything because, in the jargon of salesmen, he could sell himself; and there was a fortune in him in the fantastic elasticity of American business, the club of all the queer trades, of wild promotions, where, amok with zealot rage, he could have chanted the yokels into delirium, and cut the buttons from their coats, doing every one, everything, and finally himself.†
Chpt 2
- They were—are, perhaps, still— part of the glib jargon of pedants.†
Chpt 2
- He had become inarticulate; his voice went off into a speechless jargon.†
Chpt 2
- The grocer was an old Jew who muttered jargon into a rabbi's beard as if saying a spell against Dybbuks.†
Chpt 3
- He spoke obediently, indifferently, the hard bright mail of his mind undinted by the jargon: within, the Other One, who had no speech, saw.†
Chpt 3
- He tried to explain; a thick jargon broke from his lips.†
Chpt 3
- Gravely, earnestly, he wrestled with his soul, mouthing with gusto the inspiring jargon of the crusade.†
Chpt 3
- Then, as his mind picked its way slowly through the glib jargon of the law, he saw that the paper was an acknowledgment that he had already received the sum of five thousand dollars in consideration of college fees and expenses.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(jargon) words or expressions commonly used in a particular field but not understood by most people
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, jargon can reference nonsensical use of words.