Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make a harsh metallic sound: The spurs jangled noisily.
- v. To cause to make a harsh discordant sound.
- v. To have an irritating effect on: The racket from the street jangled my nerves.
- n. A harsh metallic sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To talk much or loudly; chatter; babble; jabber.
- To quarrel; altercate; bicker; wrangle; grumble.
- To sound discordant or harsh; make harsh discord.
- To gossip; contend; tell.
- To cause to sound harsh or inharmonious; cause to emit discordant sounds.
- To utter in a discordant or inharmonious manner.
- n. Idle talk; chatter; babble.
- n. Altercation; wrangle; quarrel.
- n. Discordant sound.
- n. A seaweed, Laminaria digitata.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To make a metallic sound.
- v. intransitive To cause something to make a metallic sound.
- v. intransitive To irritate something.
- n. A metallic sound.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
- v. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.
- v. To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
- v. To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.
- n. Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
- n. Discordant sound; wrangling.
- n. The unmelodious ringing of multiple metallic objects striking together, such as a set of small bells.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a metallic sound
- v. make a sound typical of metallic objects
Etymologies
- (onomatopoeia); compare jingle. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English janglen, to chatter, from Old French jangler, probably of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They're wrapped up in jangle and glisten in the sun, smelling like a new cassette.”
“Bartlett calls it the "indie summer song of the year", and I'm having a hard time coming up with a better candidate; the jangle is contagious and the singing is sincere and heart-melting.”
“There is a note of barbarism in the brassy jar and clamor of the instruments, enhanced by the bewildering ambition of each player to force through his piece the most noise and jangle, which is not always covered and subdued into a harmonious whole by the whang of the bass drum.”
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
“It's hard to say exactly where it started, but The Beatles and The Byrds often get the most credit for starting the enduring subgenre that's come to be known as jangle pop.”
“Army, 'the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to' jangle 'among themselves.”
“As a result, I’m 95 percent of the way to my goal, and extra coins jangle my pockets.”
“I heard the bells over the front door jangle as it swung open.”
“No current band is doing '60s throwback jangle pop better than this San Francisco foursome.”
The Washington Post: Clicky shuffle: Random songs for Monday morning
“As the drums crash, the guitars jangle and the saxophones wail, a pack of attractive women wearing revealing evening dresses scream, clap and rush onto the dance floor.”
Voice of America: Famous South African Nightclub Excels as Live Music Venue
“Their recent fifth album The Errant Charm is easily their best yet, abandoning any residual rustic awkwardness for dreamy, sophisticated West Coast jangle with just a hint of tropical tang.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jangle’.
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
( open list, randomness )squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 200 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
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onomatopoeias (2 syllable)
2 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (1 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
( op...wobble, sputter, spatter, flutter, giggle, hiccup, mumble, murmur, jangle, rattle, sizzle, rustle and 21 more...
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It's All Just Words.
quixotic, penisaurus rex, plibt, pot, polaroid, gemütlichkeit, hey! pooper scoop..., nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, elsewhere, wherever and 80 more...
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VNCle
N stands for 'nasal', not 'n'
pimple, bungle, spindle, handle, amble, humble, simple, dimple, winkle, tinkle, single, dingle and 53 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Hampsteader's list
Just some words i like . . .
bilkirkegaard, frost, flaxen, snow, quoin, quern, westering, deer, antler, solstice, autumn, autumnal and 114 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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