baragouin
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Unintelligible jargon; language so altered in sound or sense as not to be generally understood.
Examples
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I am sick of signals and ciphers and secret meetings and such baragouin.
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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.
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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 ....
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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.
Note
The word 'baragouin' may come from Breton words meaning 'bread' and 'wine'.
