Meaning of jargoneer | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who uses a great deal of jargon when speaking or writing, especially one who seems to relish such a manner of expression.

capitalized, rare, sometimes

Examples

“‘How excellent a thing is sleep⟳,’ sighed Sancho Panza; ‘it wraps a man round like⟳ a cloak’—an excellent example, by the way, of how to say⟳ a thing concretely: a Jargoneer would have⟳ said that ‘among the beneficent qualities of sleep⟳ its capacity for withdrawing the human consciousness from the contemplation of immediate circumstances may perhaps be accounted not the least remarkable.’ How vile a thing—shall we say⟳?—is the abstract noun!”

“A friend of mine had a slight skin rash she couldn't identify⟳, so she went to a real Jargoneer. He scowled at the rash, went "Hmmm" several times, then made a couple of sorties into his lab. . . . Finally he came back and informed her impressively that she was suffering from an Indeterminate Dermatitis.”

“Miss⟳ Marincola, a Barthes-Benjamin devotee too, and a relentless jargoneer, also clues us into the fact that the "esthetic vocabulary" of the photographer was developed by the "mass media ‘image’ in its various permutations as a paradigm of reality."”

“Partnering, along with its less irritating cousin "partnership", crops up all over the place⟳, being equally useful to the lazy jargoneer and the lazy policy-maker. It has been said that there is no noun which cannot be verbed; in the same way, there is now nothing, concrete or abstract, which cannot be partnered.”

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