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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-203/
- Published: 2020-08-16T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-13T11:00:53.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

jargon (noun) – 1\. The specialised language of a trade, profession, or similar group, especially when viewed as difficult to understand by outsiders.  
2\. Nonsensical or incoherent language.  
3\. A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin. Not in technical use.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/jargon?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Mid-14th century, “unintelligible talk, gibberish; chattering, jabbering,” from Old French jargon “a chattering” (of birds), also “language, speech,” especially “idle talk; thieves’ Latin” (12th century). Ultimately of echoic origin (compare Latin garrire “to chatter”).

From 1640s as “mixed speech, pigin;” 1650s as “phraseology peculiar to a sect or profession,” hence “mode of speech full of unfamiliar terms.” Middle English also had it as a verb, jargounen “to chatter” (late 14th century), from French.

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