jargonist

noun

jargonist

noun

Etymology From jargon + -ist.

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 Euphuism1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Madame D'Arblay”, in Edinburgh Review:
Synonyms
jargonaut, jargoneer, jargoner
Derived terms
jargonistic

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