jargony

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adjective

Typified by jargon; difficult to understand.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivejargony (comparative jargonier, superlative jargoniest)

comparative jargonier · superlative jargoniest

  1. informalTypified by jargon; difficult to understand.

    I studied parts of plants and bones so that I could accurately describe in the jargoniest of jargon every single species-specific part from petiole to scapula, from tibia to sepal.

    2017, Michael W. Twitty, “No More Whistling Walk for Me”, in The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, New York, N.Y.: Amistad, →ISBN, page 21
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    He [Bill Hunt Gross] identified market inefficiencies around which he was able to structure trades that, over decades, wrung out extra basis points. He helpfully described these strategies himself in a 2005 paper and in his keynote speech at the 2014 Morningstar conference. “Structural alpha,” he called it, in the jargoniest jargon. And more directly: “the keys to the kingdom.”

    2022 May 6, Mary Childs, “Was the ‘Bond King’ Great?”, in Institutional Investor, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2024

Origin

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APA

jargony. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jargony

MLA

“jargony.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jargony. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jargony,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jargony.

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