argot
2026-09-29 · 2 min · 10 entities
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 29, 2026 is:
argot \AHR-goh\ noun
Argot refers to the language or set of words used by a particular group of people.
// The novels were such a success that fans began communicating in the secret argot spoken by the series’ characters.
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Examples:
“ [Lenny] Bruce , born Leonard Alfred Schneider on Long Island, quit school at 16 and got his start telling jokes at a Brooklyn nightclub for $12 a week. … He developed his act in ... jazz joints around Southern California in the mid-1950s. He riffed in a Beatnik argot , and his act took on the flavor of improvisational jazz.” — Christopher Goffard, The Los Angeles Times , 16 Aug. 2026
Did you know?
English borrowed argot from French in the early 1800s, although the language already had several words basically covering its meaning. Jargon , the Anglo-French ancestor of which meant “twittering of birds,” had been used for specialized (and often obscure or pretentious) vocabulary since the 1600s. There was also lingo , from the Latin word lingua , meaning “language”; that term had been in use for more than a century. English novelist and lawyer Henry Fielding used it of “court gibberish”—what we tend to call legalese . And speaking of legalese , the suffix -ese is a newer means of indicating specialized argot. One of its very first applications at the turn of the 20th century was for “American ‘golfese.’”