Crossword-Solution: JARGON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jargon | n. | Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. |
| Jargon | v. i. | To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. |
| Jargon | n. | A variety of zircon. See Zircon. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with JARGON (5)
They would then sing most exultingly the following words:— “I am going away to the Great House Farm! O, yea! O, yea! O!” This they would sing, as a chorus, to words which to many would seem unmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves.
Sitting upon my throne of augury, As is my wont, where every fowl of heaven Find harborage, upon mine ears was borne A jargon strange of twitterings, hoots, and screams; So knew I that each bird at the other tare With bloody talons, for the whirr of wings Could signify naught else.
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This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
This conveyancer’s jargon could not have been picked up by hanging round the courts of law in London two hundred and fifty years ago, when suits as to the title of real property were comparatively rare.
Quotes with JARGON (3)
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.
Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and makes it a plain old job, accessible to everyone. But with industry comes jargon. I was aware that jargon was starting to fill those growing shelves of Writer's Self Help books, not to mention the blogosphere. Wherever I looked, the writing of a script was being reduced to A, B, C plots, Text and Subtext, Three Act Structure and blah, blah, blah. And I'd think…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 39 times in crossword archives (1955–2023).