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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

... however, which they read and heard in the little quiet room at Kirklands sank into their hearts as they had never done when they read them as the stereotyped portion of the Bible-reading lesson amid the mingled jangle of slates and pencils and pattering feet, with the hum of rough northern tongues, which prevailed in the ...

— Geordie's Tryst - A Tale of Scottish Life • Mrs. Milne Rae

... blackbirds jangle in the tops Of hoary-antlered sycamores; The timorous killdee starts and stops Among the ...

— Poems • William D. Howells

... to the eye, as is their liberated murmur to the ear. All across this broad interval the teams are ploughing. The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday. The blackbirds jangle in the oak, the robin is perched upon the elm, the song-sparrow on the hazel, and the bluebird on the apple-tree. There rises a hawk and sails slowly, the stateliest of airy things, a floating dream of long and languid summer-hours. But as yet, though there is warmth enough for a ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861 • Various

... orders on one's coat or in the button-hole. Let 'em find out what a big boy am I without help from self-imposed placards seems to me to be perhaps the more modest way. The method in vogue in Japanese temples, where the worshippers jangle a bell to call the attention of the gods to their prayers or offerings, seems out of place where the god is merely the casual man in the ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... them in their hearts), jangling all together, when suddenly the door opened and a grave young officer walked in. ''Tis Captain Amor Stoddart, of Noll's Army,' the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to 'jangle' among themselves. They went on, speaking of the most holy things, talking even about the blood of Christ, without any feeling of solemnity, till Fox could bear it ...

— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin

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