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/dʒˈæŋgəl/ Listen

noun

Jangle n.

Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.

Discordant sound; wrangling.

The unmelodious ringing of multiple metallic objects striking together, such as a set of small bells. "The musical jangle of sleigh bells."

verb

Jangle v. t. To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with. "Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh."

Jangle v. i. (past & past part. jangled; pres. part. jangling)

To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.

To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay."

To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle. "Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree." "Prussian Trenck... jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner."

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Etymology of 'Jangle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jangle" Quotes from Famous Books

... paints this well: "The voices of children seem as natural to the early morning as the voice of the birds. The suddenness, the lightness, the loudness, the sweet confusion, the sparkling gayety, seem alike in both. The sudden little jangle is now here and now there; and now a single voice calls to another, and the boy is off like the bird." So Heine, with deeper thoughtfulness, noticed the "intimacy with the trees" of the little wood-gatherer in the ...

— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... to jangle, no electric light and no waterworks, but in the soil of St. Marys were springs of sweet water, and through the windows came the soft glow of lamplight as evening closed in, and the shuffle of feet on the porch announced the visitor. It was from the river ...

— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan

... leaden fly-eaters, barred-shouldered fly-eaters, hurry to the circus to desolate it with hungry swoops. The assemblage is noisy, for two or three drongos cannot meet without making a clatter on the subject of the moment. They cannot sing, but clink and jangle with as much intensity and individual satisfaction as if gifted with peerless note. It is the height of the season, and a newly matched pair, satisfied with an ample meal, sit side by side on a branch to tell of their love, and in language which, though it ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... mystery ahead, a green light grew and crept down upon us. A giant shape loomed up, and frowned crushingly upon the little craft. A blaze of light, the jangle of a bell, and it was past. We were dancing in the wash of one of the Scotch steamers, and the murk had ...

— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... and jangle the same blessed way That they did when they rang for Bartholomew's day. Hark! the tallow-faced monsters, nor women nor boys, Vex the air with a shrill, sexless horror of noise. Te Deum laudamus! All round without stint The incense-pot ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

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