argot

ar·got

noun \ˈär-gət, -(ˌ)gō\

Definition of ARGOT

: an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group <shoved into a taxi by a porter whose argot I couldn't understand — Allen Tate>

Examples of ARGOT

1. groups communicating in their own secret argots
2. <used the argot of figure skaters>

Origin of ARGOT

French

First Known Use: 1842

Related to ARGOT

Synonyms: terminology, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, vocabulary

Related Words: colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism; slanguage; bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble

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Rhymes with ARGOT

target