argot

Borrowed from French argot, of unknown origin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹɡoʊ/, /ˈɑɹɡət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɹɡəʊ

argot (plural argots)

1. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.

   Synonyms: cant, jargon, slang

   • 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, p. 338-9:

     Sadie had, in the argot of the day, a really good built.

2. The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers.

   Synonym: jargon

   The conversation was in the argot of the trade, full of acronyms and abbreviations that made no sense to the uninitiate.

3. A strongly marked style of speaking.
   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 232:

     Merle spoke in the thin nasal argot of this city's slums: "This the fus toim yez been lobbed, oy, kiddow?"

• argotic

• groat, gator, gotra, Groat, RATOG, 'gator

Borrowed from French argot.

• Rhymes: -ɔt

argot m (plural argots)

1. slang, argot
2. jargon

• “argot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Of obscure origin, first attested in 1628.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡo/, (older, now chiefly Belgium) /aʁ.ɡɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ

argot m (plural argots)

1. slang
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome IV : L’idylle rue Plumet et l’épopée rue Saint-Denis, book 7:

     Qu’est-ce que l’argot ? C’est tout à la fois la nation et l’idiome ; c’est le vol sous ses deux espèces, peuple et langue.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. cant (secret language)

• argot on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “argot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ragot

Unadapted borrowing from French argot.

• IPA^(key): /arˈɡɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: ar‧got

argot m inan or n (indeclinable)

1. (linguistics, literary) argot, jargon, slang

   Synonyms: gwara, slang, żargon

Indeclinable

or

• argot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• argot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• grota

• argô (rare)

Unadapted borrowing from French argot.^[1][2]

argot m (plural argots)

1. (linguistics) argot (a secret language used by thieves, tramps and vagabonds)

   Synonym: calão

2. (linguistics) argot (specialised vocabulary and terminology of a field)

   Synonym: jargão

Borrowed from French argot.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈɡot/ [aɾˈɣ̞ot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: ar‧got

argot m (plural argots)^[1]

1. slang, argot

   Synonym: jerga

• “argot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024