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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

... in the morning, he sat down hard by the portal. Now the king of the city was dead and had left no son, and the citizens fell out anent who should be ruler over them: and their words and redes differed, so that civil war was like to befal them thereupon. But it came to pass that, after long jangle, they agreed to leave the choice to the late king's elephant and that he unto whom he consented should be king and that they would not contest with him the sway. So to this they sware and on the ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... and misery of our northern towns, In this her life's last day, our poor, our pain, Our jangle of false ...

— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... its midst were a vague rumor of Indian troubles on the frontier; and he realized how there might once have been a street feud of forty years in Florence without interfering materially with the industry and prosperity of the city. On Broadway there was a silence where a jangle and clatter of horse-car bells and hoofs had been, but it was not very noticeable; and on the avenues, roofed by the elevated roads, this silence of the surface tracks was not noticeable at all in the roar of the trains overhead. ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand, Shoals of low-jargoning men drift inward to the sound— The jangle and throb of a piano ... tum-ti-tum ... Drawn by a lamp, they come Out of the glimmering lines of their ...

— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various

... one, only to rise by the other—a creature of incalculable variability. We have the consolation of knowing that evolution is ever in action, that the ideal is a light that cannot fail. He will not forever balance thus between good and evil. When this jangle of free-will instinct shall have been adjusted, when perfect under standing has given the former the power to replace the latter entirely, man will no longer vary. The needle of understanding will yet point steadfast and unwavering to the distinct ...

— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

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