Word: jargoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinook Jargon...
TIME, July 5, p. 40, says that the name of Dr. Good's boat Cheechako is Eskimo for "tenderfoot." Right you are about tenderfoot, but not Eskimo. Cheechako is pure Chinook Jargon; chee meaning new, recent, or just now, while chako means to come, or arrive, or approach...
...frightening depths and complexities of human emotions, fear of her own sentimentality drives her, as it drives Steinbeck and Hemingway, to find safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...
...long time I have been exposed to the various technical and electronic expressions thrown so carelessly about in conversation by our modern Marconis. Once foreign words like "oscillator", "impedance", and "curve" (this last foreign only in the professional sense) are now familiar jargon to me, though I must confess a slight haze still obscures their true meaning. My first contact with these "cathodic terms" produced some strange reactions...
...James F. Byrnes, he still operated from his rainy-day office in a Carlton Hotel suite, from his sunny-day office on a Lafayette Park bench, prodigally dispensing his wisdom, always counseling hope, always sticking to the fundamentals, talking torrentially in a rich mixture of Broadway words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk, almost as much as his demonstrated ability, that has created the Baruch legend. No man can hear him and go away poorer, for the tall old man has a Lincolnian sense of the humanities, a tolerance enriched with...