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Noun- Outlandish unintelligible speech; jargon.

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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 ....
  • Moving into clearer etymological waters, we encounter the paradox that whilst Frenchmen have consistently dismissed Breton as a worthless baragouin ` patois, gibberish,...
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