The difference between Argot and Cant
When used as nouns, argot means a secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds, whereas cant means an argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
Cant is also verb with the meaning: to speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
Cant is also adjective with the meaning: lively, lusty.
check bellow for the other definitions of Argot and Cant
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Argot as a noun:
A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
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Argot as a noun:
The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers; a jargon.
Examples:
"The conversation was in the argot of the trade, full of acronyms and abbreviations that made no sense to the [[uninitiate]]."
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Cant as a noun (countable):
An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
Examples:
"synonyms: argot jargon slang"
"He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger."
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Cant as a noun (countable, uncountable):
A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
Examples:
"synonyms: argot jargon slang"
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Cant as a noun:
A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
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Cant as a noun (uncountable, pejorative):
Empty, hypocritical talk.
Examples:
"People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant."
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Cant as a noun (uncountable):
Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
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Cant as a noun (countable, heraldry):
A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
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Cant as a noun (obsolete):
A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
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Cant as a verb (intransitive):
To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
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Cant as a verb (intransitive):
To speak in set phrases.
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Cant as a verb (intransitive):
To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
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Cant as a verb (intransitive, heraldry):
Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
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Cant as a verb (obsolete):
To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
Examples:
"rfquotek Jonathan Swift"
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Cant as a noun (obsolete):
Side, edge, corner, niche.
Examples:
"Under the cant of a hill."
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Cant as a noun:
Slope, the angle at which something is set.
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Cant as a noun:
A corner (of a building).
Examples:
"synonyms: corner"
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Cant as a noun:
An outer or external angle.
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Cant as a noun:
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
Examples:
"synonyms: beveslope tilt"
"rfquotek Totten"
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Cant as a noun:
A movement or throw that overturns something.
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Cant as a noun:
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
Examples:
"to give a ball a cant'"
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Cant as a noun (coopering):
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Cant as a noun:
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Cant as a noun (nautical):
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
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Cant as a verb (transitive):
To set (something) at an angle.
Examples:
"to cant a cask; to cant a ship"
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Cant as a verb (transitive):
To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
Examples:
"to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football"
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Cant as a verb (transitive):
To bevel an edge or corner.
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Cant as a verb (transitive):
To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
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Cant as a verb (transitive):
To divide or parcel out.
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Cant as an adjective (British, dialect):
lively, lusty.