Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of jargon
nounjargoning (plural jargonings)
plural jargonings
- Unintelligible speech.
Wherefore, the language of Maramma was incessantly fluctuating; and had become so full of jargonings, that the birds in the groves were greatly puzzled; not knowing where lay the virtue of sounds, so incoherent.
1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither
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