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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make a harsh metallic sound: The spurs jangled noisily.
  2. v. To cause to make a harsh discordant sound.
  3. v. To have an irritating effect on: The racket from the street jangled my nerves.
  4. n. A harsh metallic sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To talk much or loudly; chatter; babble; jabber.
  2. To quarrel; altercate; bicker; wrangle; grumble.
  3. To sound discordant or harsh; make harsh discord.
  4. To gossip; contend; tell.
  5. To cause to sound harsh or inharmonious; cause to emit discordant sounds.
  6. To utter in a discordant or inharmonious manner.
  7. n. Idle talk; chatter; babble.
  8. n. Altercation; wrangle; quarrel.
  9. n. Discordant sound.
  10. n. A seaweed, Laminaria digitata.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To make a metallic sound.
  2. v. intransitive To cause something to make a metallic sound.
  3. v. intransitive To irritate something.
  4. n. A metallic sound.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
  2. v. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.
  3. v. To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
  4. v. To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.
  5. n. Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
  6. n. Discordant sound; wrangling.
  7. n. The unmelodious ringing of multiple metallic objects striking together, such as a set of small bells.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a metallic sound
  2. v. make a sound typical of metallic objects

Etymologies

  1. (onomatopoeia); compare jingle. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English janglen, to chatter, from Old French jangler, probably of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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