JANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jangle mean? 

• JANGLE (noun)
  The noun JANGLE has 1 sense:

1. a metallic sound

  Familiarity information: JANGLE used as a noun is very rare.

• JANGLE (verb)
  The verb JANGLE has 1 sense:

1. make a sound typical of metallic objects

  Familiarity information: JANGLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metallic sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

jangle; jingle

Context example:

the jangle of spurs

Hypernyms ("jangle" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

jangle (make a sound typical of metallic objects)

jangly (like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together)

• JANGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jangle    ... he / she / it jangles   
Past simple: jangled   
Past participle: jangled   
-ing form: jangling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a sound typical of metallic objects

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

jangle; jingle; jingle-jangle

Context example:

The keys were jingling in his pocket

Hypernyms (to "jangle" is one way to...):

make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The coins jangle

Derivation:

jangle (a metallic sound)

 Context examples 

A deadly sickness came over him at the sight, and sitting down by the wayside he burst out weeping, with his nerves all in a jangle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He relit the stair gas as he spoke, and we saw before us a singular-looking man, whose appearance, as well as his voice, testified to his jangled nerves.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And you can hear the chains a-jangle as you go about and reach for the other buoy.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"I don't truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!" returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was continual bickering and jangling.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Hold your tongue!” Poole said to her, with a ferocity of accent that testified to his own jangled nerves; and indeed, when the girl had so suddenly raised the note of her lamentation, they had all started and turned towards the inner door with faces of dreadful expectation.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Further on he met a sturdy black-bearded man, mounted on a brown horse, with a rosary in his right hand and a long two-handed sword jangling against his stirrup-iron.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would lose only five hours anyway, and then the jangling bell would jerk him out of unconsciousness and he would have before him another glorious day of nineteen hours.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Fly, my lady, fly! he screeched, and whizzed past them like bolt from bow; while close behind came lumbering a huge black bear, with red tongue lolling from his mouth, and a broken chain jangling behind him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)