jargonize

English

Alternative forms

• jargonise

Etymology

jargon +‎ -ize

Verb

jargonize (third-person singular simple present jargonizes, present participle jargonizing, simple past and past participle jargonized)

1. (intransitive) To speak or write using jargon.
   • 1982 Jan. 14, John Leonard, "Books of the Times" (book review of The Age of Desire by Joel Kovel), New York Times (retrieved 29 Nov 2012):

     He provokes, inspires, pontificates and jargonizes unto "hegemony" and "archaic parental imagos."

   • 2008 August 25, David Hare, “How the BBC killed the TV play”, in Time Online, UK:

     [C]ontemporary BBC executives are far too busy jargonising to each other about delivery platforms and multichoice environments.

2. (transitive) To convert into jargon; to express using jargon.
   • 1963 April 12, “Television: Selling Confusion”, in Time:

     But the committeemen were not to be diverted by the long-winded, jargonized explanations of the Nielsen modus operandi.

   • 1978 March 21, Karen Ogden, “Jargon, gobbelydegook, and other mumbo jumbo”, in The Star-Phoenix, Canada, retrieved 29 November 2012:

     You can jargonize many words by adding "ize" to the end of them.

Derived terms

• jargonization

References

• “jargonize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.