jargonist

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English

Etymology

From jargon +‎ -ist.

Noun

jargonist (plural jargonists)

  1. 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

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