jangle
English
Etymology
From Middle English janglen (“to talk excessively, chatter, talk idly”), from Old French jangler (“to chatter, gossip, bawl, argue noisily”), perhaps from Frankish *jangelon (“to jeer”) (compare Middle Dutch jangelen (“to whine”)).
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Verb
jangle (third-person singular simple present jangles, present participle jangling, simple past and past participle jangled)
- (intransitive) To make a rattling metallic sound.
- (transitive) To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
- Shakespeare
- Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive) To irritate.
- The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
- To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
- Shakespeare
- Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.
- Carlyle
- Prussian Trenck […] jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
- Shakespeare
Translations
to make a metallic sound
to cause to make a metallic sound
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to irritate
Noun
jangle (plural jangles)
- A rattling metallic sound.
- Longfellow
- the musical jangle of sleigh bells
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 11:
- Jessamy tugged the scrolled iron bell-pull which hung down on one side of the gate. Somewhere behind, she could hear an answering jangle.
- Longfellow
- (obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Translations
metallic sound
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