Jangle

/ˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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, […]

The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.

A ſincere Heart that would ſerve God with his beſt, findeth more in a duty, than he could expect: and by Praying gets more of the fervency and Ardours of praying, as a Bell may be long a raiſing, but when it is up it jangleth not as it did at firſt.

There is hardly a week without some saint in it who has to be commemorated, and often there are two in the same week, and sometimes three. I know when we have reached another saint, for then the church bells of the nearest village begin to jangle, and go on doing it every two hours.

What jangleſt thou Jedburgh? thou jags for nought, / There ſhal a guilful groom dwell thee within, / The towre that thou truſts in, as the truth is, / Shal be traced with a trace, trow thou none other: […]

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

[T]hat brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy and Life-theory which we hear jangled on all hands of us, in senate-houses, sporting-clubs, leading-articles, pulpits, and platforms, everywhere as the Ultimate Gospel and candid Plain-English of Man's Life, from the throats and pens and thoughts of all but all men!

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.

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