argot

English

Etymology

From French argot

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɑːɡəʊ/,
• (US) IPA: /ˈɑːrɡoʊ/, IPA: /ˈɑːrɡət/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

secret language of thieves, tramps and vagabonds

• Bulgarian: арго (bg) (argo), жаргон (bg) (žargon)
• French: argot (fr) m
• Greek: αργκό (el) (argkó) f, αργοτική (el) (argotikí) f, κοινωνιόλεκτος (el) (koinoniólektos) f

• Hungarian: argó (hu)
• Polish: argot (pl) n
• Russian: феня (ru) (fénja) f (in the criminal world), сленг (ru) (sleng) m, жаргон (ru) (žargón) m, арго (ru) (argó) n (indeclinable)

specialized vocabulary and terminology of a field

• Bulgarian: жаргон (bg) (žargon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行话 (cmn)

• Finnish: slangi (fi), ammattislangi (fi), ammattikieli (fi)
• Greek: ιδιογλωσσία (el) (idioglossía) f, ιδιόλεκτο (el) (idiólekto) n
• Hungarian: argó (hu), terminológia (hu)

• Polish: argot (pl) n
• Russian: жаргон (ru) (žargón) m
• Spanish: argot (es) m

Anagrams

• gator
• gotra
• groat

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Noun

argot m (plural argots)

1. slang
2. cant (secret language)

Derived terms

• argotique

Anagrams

• ragot

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Polish

Etymology

From French argot

Pronunciation

• IPA: [arˈɡɔ]

Noun

argot n (indeclinable)

1. argot

Anagrams

• grota

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Spanish

Etymology

From French argot

Noun

argot m (plural argot)

1. slang, argot