A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group: thieves' argot. See synonyms at dialect.
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A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group: thieves' argot. See synonyms at dialect.
[French.]
noun
A specialized language or jargon, shared by members of a subculture.
Hey, dude, do you know any cool argot?
Argot (French and Spanish for "slang") is primarily slang used by various groups, including but not limited to thieves and other criminals, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.
Victor Hugo was one of the first to research argot extensively [1]. He describes it in his novel, Les Misérables, as the language of the dark; at one point, he says,
| “ | What is argot; properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery. | ” |
Bruce Sterling defines argot as "the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge clique.... a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world." For example: "He philosophized and recited baseball statistics in a Brooklyn argot that was fast-fading."
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - argot, fagjargon, forbryderjargon
Nederlands (Dutch)
jargon, bargoens, koeterwaals
Deutsch (German)
n. - Jargon, Argot
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αργκό, ιδιοδιάλεκτος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - gíria (f), jargão
Русский (Russian)
арго, жаргон
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - jargong
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
隐语, 暗语, 行话, 黑话
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 隱語, 暗語, 行話, 黑話
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) ارغه : لغه خاصه أو عاميه تصنعها فئه أو طبقه اجتماعهي
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - שפת הגנבים, ארגו, שפת הדיבור של קבוצה או מעמד, משלב חברתי
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