Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unintelligible jargon; language so altered in sound or sense as not to be generally understood.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am sick of signals and ciphers and secret meetings and such _baragouin_.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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She spoke the rude French of the fishing villages, where the language lives chiefly as a baragouin, mingled often with words and forms belonging to many other tongues.
Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it ....
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Moving into clearer etymological waters, we encounter the paradox that whilst Frenchmen have consistently dismissed Breton as a worthless baragouin ` patois, gibberish, 'the origin of that pejorative is undoubtedly Breton.
whichbe commented on the word baragouin
Gibberish.
May 16, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word baragouin
JM respects baragouin wherever he encounters it.
July 16, 2010