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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jargon \Jar"gon\, noun [E. jargon, It. jiargone; perh. fr. Pers. zarg[=u]n gold-colored, fr. zar gold. Cf. {Zircon}.] (Min.) A variety of zircon. See {Zircon}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jargon \Jar"gon\, noun [F. jargon, OF. also gargon, perh. akin to E. garrulous, or gargle.]
1. Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish. ''A barbarous jargon.'' --Macaulay. ''All jargon of the schools.'' --Prior.
2. Hence: an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. Especially, an idiom with frequent use of informal technical terms, such as acronyms, used by specialists. ''All jargon of the schools.'' --Prior.
The jargon which serves the traffickers. --Johnson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jargon \Jar"gon\ (j[aum]r"g[o^]n), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Jargoned} (-g[o^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Jargoning}.] To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.
The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. --Longfellow.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Zircon \Zir"con\, noun [F., the same word as jargon. See {Jargon} a variety of zircon.]
1. (Min.) A mineral consisting predominantly of zirconium silicate ({Zr2SiO4}) occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called {hyacinth}. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called {jargon}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
2. an imitation gemstone made of {cubic zirconia}. [PJC]
{Zircon syenite}, a coarse-grained syenite containing zircon crystals and often also el[ae]olite. It is largely developed in Southern Norway.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jargon
noun
1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: {cant}, {slang}, {lingo}, {argot}, {patois}, {vernacular}]
2: a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon [syn: {jargoon}]
3: specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "jargon": Aesopian language, Babel, Beach-la-mar, Greek, Kitchen Kaffir, Oregon Jargon, Sabir, abracadabra, absurdity, amphigory, argot, auxiliary language, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, bosh, bull, bunk, cackle, cant, chatter, cipher, claptrap, code, colloquialize, crap, creole, creole language, creolized language, cryptogram, dialect, dictionary, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, humbug, idiom, interlanguage, jabber, jabberwocky, jargonize, jumble, koine, language, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, noise, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, phraseology, pidgin, pidgin English, piffle, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, scatology, scramble, secret language, skimble-skamble, slang, speak, speech, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, taboo language, talk, talkee-talkee, trade language, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, use language, vaporing, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language, waffling
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