janglery
English
Etymology
Compare Old French janglerie (“chattering, talk”). Likely of onomatopoeiac origin.
Noun
janglery (uncountable)
- (obsolete) chatter, gossip
- 1387, Chaucer, “v. 2273”, in The Tale of Melibee[1]:
- And as to youre fourthe resoun, ther ye seyn that the janglerie of wommen kan hyde thynges that they wot noght, as who seith that a womman kan nat hyde that she woot
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “janglery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)