Jargonist
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who overuses jargon; one who uses cant or slang.
"Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr . Gosport laughed, nothing in the language of Sir Sedley Clarendel, approaches this new Euphuism"
Example
More examples"Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr . Gosport laughed, nothing in the language of Sir Sedley Clarendel, approaches this new Euphuism"
Etymology
From jargon + -ist.
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