Jangle

Quick meaning: Jangle is a verb meaning To cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound.

Meaning

To cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound.

More Meanings

1. To express or say (something) in an argumentative or harsh manner.
2. To irritate or jar (something).
3. To make a rattling metallic sound.
4. To speak in an angry or harsh manner.
5. To quarrel verbally; to wrangle.
6. Of a person: to speak loudly or too much; to chatter, to prate; of a bird: to make a noisy chattering sound.
7. A rattling metallic sound; a clang.

Example Sentences

The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.

Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

Good witts will be iangling, but gentles agree, / This ciuill warre of wittes were much better vſed / On Nauar and his Bookmen, for heere tis abuſed.

Now ſee what noble and moſt ſoueraigne reaſon / Like ſweet bells iangled, out of time, and harſh, /That vnmatcht forme, and ſtature of blowne youth / Blaſted with extacie, […]

Word Forms

• jangles
• jangling
• jangled

Synonyms for jangle

Depending on context, synonyms include squabble, altercation, bickering, jingle-jangle, clash, crash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clangor, clangour, clank, jingle, clang, clash.

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