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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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"Jangle" Quotes from Famous Books

... sound beyond the curtains. No answer. Only he thought the strange scent grew stronger. He decided to go forward. With his heart in his mouth he parted the curtains with both hands, startled by the sharp jangle of metal rings ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... was half merry and half wroth, and crying "'Ware!" he dressed his spear beneath his arm. Right so he rushed upon Sir Lancelot, and so marvellously did his harness jangle and smite together as he came, that the horse of Sir Lancelot was frighted and turned aside. Thus the point of the fir-tree caught him upon the shoulder and came near to unhorse him. Then Martimor drew rein and shouted: "Ha! ha! has Iron-Tail ...

— The Blue Flower, and Others • Henry van Dyke

... forth mere senseless noise; the ripple of frogs in marsh and spring branch fall upon the sense as sweet as bird-songs. The clamour of little falls, the solemn suggestion of wind in the pines, the sweet broken jangle of cow-bells, a catbird in a tree—a continuous yet zigzag sort of warble, silver and sibilant notes alternating,—the rare wild turkey's call along a deeply embowered creek—one by one all these came to Judith's dreaming ears, clear, perfect, ...

— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan

... the exchange and barred the door, which they in their haste had left open. As he did this, the close observer, had one been present, might have noted that though his movements were now alert and eager, they no longer were betrayed by any sound, and that his spurs had ceased to jangle. Yet that he purposed to ride abroad was evident from the fact that from a far corner he dragged out a heavy saddle. He flung this upon the counter, and swiftly stripped it of its stirrups. These, with more than necessary care, he hid away upon ...

— Ranson's Folly • Richard Harding Davis

... a half, perhaps; and then she heard the tinkle of sleigh bells. They might be somebody else's. But they came nearer, and very near, and stopped; only Dolly heard a mixed jangle of the bells, as if the horse had thrown his head up and given a confused shake to them all. The next thing was the gate falling to, and a step crunching the crisp snow. Then the house door opened with no preliminary knock; and somebody ...

— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner

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