Crossword clues for jangle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jangle \Jan"gle\, v. t. To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh.
--Shak.
Jangle \Jan"gle\, n. [Cf. OF. jangle.]
Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
--Chaucer.Discordant sound; wrangling.
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The unmelodious ringing of multiple metallic objects striking together, such as a set of small bells.
The musical jangle of sleigh bells.
--Longfellow.
Jangle \Jan"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Jangling.] [OE. janglen to quarrel, OF. jangler to rail, quarrel; of Dutch or German origin; cf. D. jangelen, janken, to whimper, chide, brawl, quarrel.]
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.''
--Chaucer.-
To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.
--Shak.Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
--Carlyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "gossip, slanderous conversation, dispute," from Old French jangle, from jangler (see jangle (v.)). Meaning "discordant sound" is from 1795.
c.1300, jangeln, "to talk excessively, chatter, talk idly," from Old French jangler "to chatter, gossip, bawl, argue noisily" (12c.), perhaps from Frankish *jangelon "to jeer" or some other Germanic source (compare Middle Dutch jangelen "to whine"). Meaning "make harsh noise" is first recorded late 15c. Related: Jangled; jangling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A rattling metallic sound. 2 (context obsolete English) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a rattling metallic sound. 2 (context transitive English) To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound. 3 (context transitive English) To irritate. 4 To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
WordNet
n. a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs" [syn: jingle]
v. make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" [syn: jingle, jingle-jangle]
Wikipedia
Jangle may refer to:
- JangleBox, a compression/sustain guitar effects pedal
- Jangletown, a comic collection also known as The Further Adventures of The Joker
- Jangle Leg, a character from the 1999 film Life
- Jangle pop, a subgenre of alternative rock
Usage examples of "jangle".
The man was too awkward aiming, but he went instantly graceful when Rambo shot him, smoothly clutching his right shoulder, spinning easily, toppling perfectly over the bicycle next to the tool shed, and then he was awkward again as the bicycle gave way under him and the two jumbled to the ground in a tinny jangle of chain and spokes.
She walked slowly away from the bank of phones, turned into a video garden where the heavy music warred with the arrhythmic beep and jangle of game consoles.
Commander Arris heard the clear jangle of the radar net alarm as he was dreaming about a fish.
Rawnie coughed again, her body shaking, her bangles tinkling and jangling.
She looked longingly at the soda-can atrocity on my wrist, all curling jangles of some lightweight alloy bendable as warm wax.
Skeeter came down the corridor, jangling keys, followed by the night man, who had a pistol in his Booc THEE: Tucker Watts 393 hand.
The werewolf jangled some coins in his pocket, and Cyd had to admit the offer of payment was tempting.
About half-past three the telephone upon the desk began to ring, jangling the hospital silence with its ominous and insistent clangour, but the big burly figure of the man did not stir, he made no move to answer.
Marlowe, with his nervous system jangling, was sorely tempted to remove it with a blast of self-propelled 10mms.
Seconds after he intersected the rutted tracks, he heard footsteps running toward him, coins jangling in a pocket.
A few more minutes passed, and then a young policeman with rimless spectacles came down the corridor jangling a bunch of keys.
There were echoes of talking, of bolts being opened and closed, the jangling of chains and keys.
Through the porthole he could see the jangling racket of blood pumps and oxygen pumps and hear the uproar of the motion Gully Foyle made toward him.
Manatassi watched him, noticing the quick nervous birdlike movements of head and hands that set the golden earrings jangling and the thick black plaits of hair dangling down his back.
Hulya, he remembered the slave smell, the sound and kiss of the lash, the jangling weight of the chains, the searing heat of the rock, the voices of the slave-masters, the thousand other memories burned and branded into his brain.