argot

Borrowed from French argot, of unknown origin.

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

argot (plural argots)

1. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
2. The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers; a jargon.

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

• (secret language): cant, jargon, slang
• (specialized vocabulary): jargon

• argotic

• Groat, gator, gotra, groat

Borrowed from French argot.

argot m (plural argots)

1. slang, argot
2. jargon

• “argot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Of obscure origin, first attested in 1628.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡo/

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argot m (plural argots)

1. slang
2. cant (secret language)

• argot on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “argot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ragot

Borrowed from French argot.

• IPA^(key): /arˈɡɔ/

argot n (indeclinable)

1. argot

• argot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• grota

Borrowed from French argot.

argot m (plural argots)

1. (linguistics) argot (a secret language used by thieves, tramps and vagabonds)
2. (linguistics) argot (specialised vocabulary and terminology of a field)

• (secret language): calão
• (specialised vocabulary): jargão

Borrowed from French argot.

argot m (plural argot)

1. slang, argot

• jerga f

• “argot” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.