argot
a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification: a Restoration play rich in thieves' argot.
the special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group: sociologists' argot.
Origin of argot
1Other words from argot
- ar·got·ic [ahr-got-ik], /ɑrˈgɒt ɪk/, adjective
Words Nearby argot
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How to use argot in a sentence
The inseparable Thingumy and Bob speak an argot of spoonerisms (“Nake no totice” and so on), and carry a secret ruby.
Lacking devoted patronage, there Telugu evolved into a spectacularly hideous argot.
The motions will “ripen,” in the rather charming legislative argot applied to this aggressively charmless process, next Tuesday.
Under all the revolutionary argot, the new state functioned just like the old state - only worse.
For those unfamiliar with the argot, a “buffalo” is a “nickel” uh, five years?
His songs were in argot French, imitations of what he had heard in low cabarets on the Seine when he was at work there.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins PennellShe smiled as portions of the argot the painter beside her was using, filtered into her consciousness.
Thirty | Howard Vincent O'BrienNo sensible man can envy Asylas, to whom the language of birds was as familiar as French argot to our young décadents.
Prose Fancies | Richard Le GallienneBut in the outer salon the talk was to the last degree shoppy, and overflowed with the argot of the studios.
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford EdwardsYou are really not at all sure that the white face belonged to argot, are you?
The House Opposite | Elizabeth Kent
British Dictionary definitions for argot
/ (ˈɑːɡəʊ) /
slang or jargon peculiar to a particular group, esp (formerly) a group of thieves
Origin of argot
1Derived forms of argot
- argotic (ɑːˈɡɒtɪk), adjective
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