Jargon v.

Also 4 iargoune, 5 -onne, (7 gargon). [a. OF. jarg-, gargonner, -ouner, F. jargonner, to warble, chatter, jabber, talk, f. jargon JARGON sb.¹]

  1.  intr. To warble, twitter, chatter. Obs. from 15th to 19th c.: see JARGON sb.¹ 1.

a. 1366[?].  Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 716. These birdes … Laies of loue, full well souning Thei songen in her iargoning.

1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 318. She withall no word may soune But chitre and as a brid iargoune.

1480.  Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIV. xiii. The birdes that iargonned on the ryver … made her to slepe.

1798.  Coleridge, Anc. Mar., V. xvi. All little birds that are How they seem’d to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!

1849.  Longf., Kavanagh, xv. Pr. Wks. 1886, II. 335. A cage, in which sundry canary-birds … were jargoning together.

1892.  A. Lang, Grass of Parnassus, 108. Far in dim fields cicalas jargoned.

  b.  trans. To utter by warbling, warble.

1894.  Tablet, 22 Dec., 966. Never mavis or merle Jargoned such roundelays.

  2.  intr. To utter jargon; to talk unintelligibly.

1570.  Levins, Manip., 164/42. Iargon, nugari.

1823.  Blackw. Mag., XIII. 69. If he jargons thus, he can expect nothing else.

1850.  Carlyle, Latter-d. Pamph., ii. 29. Disappear, I say; away, and jargon no more in that manner.

  b.  trans. To utter in a jargon; to prate about in a a jargon.

1805.  [see below].

1825.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 31. In such slang he jargons the characters of Shakespeare and Milton.

  Hence Jargoned ppl. a., Jargoning vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; Jargoner, one who uses jargon.

a. 1366[?].  [see 1].

1623.  Cockeram, Gargoning, strange speaking.

1798.  [see 1].

1805.  Roberdean, in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1806), IX. 249. The jargon’d phrase.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. III. iv. Mere idle jargoning, and sound and fury.

1875.  Howells, Foregone Concl., 18. His ear was taken by the vibrant jargoning of the boatmen.

1890.  O. Crawfurd, Round the Calendar in Portugal, 28. He [the serin] fills the air of spring and early summer with his eager jargoning.

1893.  W. G. Collingwood, Life Ruskin, I. 110. He took it out of the hands of adepts and initiated jargoners.

  Jargonal, -ish: see under JARGON sb.¹