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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

... Some things, 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 ...

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

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

— Poems • William D. Howells

... Hill, spread round my horizon every night, I see it while smoking my pipe before bed (so bright, last night, it cast a visible shadow of me against the white window-shutters); and this is all I have to do with London and its gases for a fortnight or more. My wife writes to me, there was an awful jangle of bells last day she went home from this; a Quaker asked in the railway, of some porter, 'Can thou tell me what these bells mean?'—'Well, I suppose something is up. They say Sebastopol is took, and the Rushans run away.'—A la bonne heure; ...

— A Letter Book - Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing • George Saintsbury

... Except for the occasional jangle of a bit or the ring of a horse's shoe on a stone, there was silence which lasted many minutes. Each was busy with her thoughts, and the narrowness of the trail, which here made them go in single file, served ...

— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine

... had to alight from our sleighs, go into the post-station, show our podorozhnayas to the station-master, and superintend the harnessing of two fresh teams. Getting back into my fur bag, I lay awake for the next three hours, listening to the jangle of a big bell on the wooden arch over the thill-horse's back, and watching, through frosty eyelashes, the dark outlines of the high wooded shores as they seemed to drift swiftly past ...

— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

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