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jargony en · ADJ

Etymology

From jargon + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Typified 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:
   • 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:

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