jargonist
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jargonist (plural jargonists)
- Someone who overuses jargon; one who uses cant or slang.
- 1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Madame D'Arblay”, in Edinburgh Review:
- Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr . Gosport laughed, nothing in the language of Sir Sedley Clarendel, approaches this new Euphuism