Jangle

Definition: Jangle

Jangle

Noun

1. A metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs".

Verb

1. As of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket".

Date "jangle" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Synonyms: Jangle

Synonyms: jingle (v), jinglejangle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	Quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling; Verb: jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.
	Fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert; (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar; (contend); have words; n. with; fall foul of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Jangle

English words defined with "jangle": Jangled, jingle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "jangle": JANITOR. (references)

Domain

Usage

Lyrics

In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come followin' you (Mr. Tambourine Man; performing artist: The Byrds; writing credit: Bob Dylan)

Yeah, you jangle your jewels while your shakin' ya (Armageddon It; performing artist: Def Leppard)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Carnival Jangle [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) All Jangle & Riot (reference) Jangle Twang (Noisy Words) (reference) Jingle Jangle (reference) Jingle Jangle Bear/Book and Tambourine (Animal Band) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	America's Atomic Bomb Tests Buster Jangle (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	With spurs that jingle jangle jingle. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Set; bang; chink; clang; jangle; jingle; sound; tingle; tinkle; tinkling; tingling; jingling; jangling.		Telephone; call; calling; ringing; ring; rang; rung; phone; phoning; bell; jangling; jangle; .
	Rattle; ice; frozen; cold; jiggle; jangle; shake; shaking; jangling; jiggling; frigid; chilly; chilled.		Clang; reverberate; reverberation; jangle; jangling.
	Jingle; percussion; instrument; chime; chink; chinkle; clamor; clang; clatter; clink; ding; jangle; rattle; reverberate; ring; sound; tingle; tinkle; tintannabulate; drumhead.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Jangle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.97% of the time. "Jangle" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	72.97%	27	66,962
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	16.22%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	10.81%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

Expressions using "jangle": jangle one's nerves ♦ jangle smb.'s nerves. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "jangle": jingle-jangle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "jangle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhurmë (ado, bang, blatancy, bobbery, Chirm, clamor, clamour, din, hoopla, noise, noisiness, racket, smash, sound, sputter, to-do, tumult, uproar), potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise, pandemonium, pother, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), bëj zhurmë (barrack, clamor, clamour, make a noise, make noise, riot), bëj potere (bang, kick up a row, rough-house). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشادة كلامية (skirmish, wrangle), ‏تشاحن (bicker, hassle, spat, tiff, wrangle), ‏تشاجر (brawl, broil, come to blows, fraying, hassle, quarrel, row, rumble, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, spat, squabble), ‏صلصل (clank, clatter, clink, rattle), ‏صوت متنافر, ‏صرير المعدن, ‏ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap). (various references)

Bulgarian		карам се (altercate, brabble, brawl, call down, disagree, quarrel, row, scold, spat, squabble, wrangle), кавга (altercation, broil, disagreement, doing, dustup, hassle, odds, quarrel, row, ruffle, rumpus, run in, scrape, set to, shindig, shindy, strife, warm words, wrangle), дърля се (argue back, jar, spat, squabble, wrangle), дърлене, дрънчене (clank, jingle, plunk, tang), дрънча (clank, clatter, clink, jingle, rattle, tang, twang), дрънкане (blab, chink, clink, gab, plunk, rattle, tattle, thrum, tinkle), дрънкам (blab, cank, chin, chink, cosher, gab, jingle, plunk, prate, rattle, tinkle, twaddle). (various references)

Czech		drásat (tear), cinkat (clink, jingle, tinkle), chrastit (rattle), břinkat, řinèet (clang, clank, clink). (various references)

Farsi		قیل وقال (Noise, Row, Ruction), غوغاکردن , غوغا (Affray, Clamor, Din, Fray, Hubbub, Melee, Mob, Pandemonium, Peal, Rave, Riot, Rumpus, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Tumult, Turmoil, Uproar), جنجال کردن , جنجال (Brawl, Hubbub, Scuffle, Tumult), دادوبیدادکردن (Wrangle), دادوبیداد (Brawl, Broil, Rampage, Riot, Scrimmage, Squabble, Uproar, Wrangle). (various references)

Finnish		kilistä (clink, jingle, tinkle), kilinä (clink, jingle, tinkle), kalistella (clank, clatter, rattle), helistellä (jingle, tinkle). (various references)

French		faire cliqueter, cliquetis (jar), cliqueter (jar), bruit discordant, bagarrer. (various references)

German		schrill klingeln, klirren (chink, clang, clank, clash, clink, crackle, crunch, jingle, rattle, rattling, ring, tinkle, to chink, to clank, to clash, to clink), klimpern (chink, clink, jingle, strum, thrum, tinkle, to chink, to jingle, to strum, twang). (various references)

Greek		καβγάσ (fight, fracas, quarrel, row), κουδουνίζω (clang, clink, jingle, rattle, ring, tinkle), σαματάσ (ballyhoo, hullabaloo, noise, rumpus), νταβαντούρι, χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, knock, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thrash, thump), φιλονικώ (altercate, argue, dispute, quarrel, scrap, spat, squabble, wrangle), φιλονικία (altercation, brawl, broil, contention, disputation, fray, quarrel, row, ruckus, ruction, scrap, spat, squabble, wrangle), ηχώ κακοηχώσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לשקשק (jingle, make noise, rustle), ל�"רעיש (bawl, make a noise, rag, row, rumble, whir), קשקוש מתכת. (various references)

Hungarian		zaj (ado, bluster, clamor, clamour, din, hubbub, mush, noise, sound, sputter), veszekedés (altercation, bickering, blow up, brawl, broil, dispute, flare-up, hassle, jarring, quarrel, run-in, tiff, traverse, unpleasantness), rossz hangzás, pörlekedés (altercation, bickering, broil, nagging, squabble), locsogás (blatter, driveling, drivelling, fiddle-faddle, gabble, garrulity, gossiping, lap, piffle, prattle, tittle tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, yack, yakkety-yak), lárma (ado, blare, bluster, bobbery, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, racket, row, ruckus, shindy, splatter-dash, to-do), hangzavar (babel, cacophony, discord, discordance, hubble bubble, hubbub, lurry), fecsegés (babble, blab, blat, blatter, cackle, chaffering, chat, chatter, clack, clash, driveling, drivelling, gab, gabble, gossiping, jabber, lip, loquacity, palaver, piffle, prattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle), diszharmónia (disharmony, variance), csörömpölés (clash, clashing, clink), civakodás (altercation, bickering, brabble, brawl, brawling, breeze, broil, disunion, jar, jarring, miff, quarrel, spat, squabble), civódás (bickering, chicanery, quarrel, spat, squabble, unpleasantness), üres fecsegés (blather, blether, buncombe, bunkum, froth, hot air, rant, rigmarole, verbiage). (various references)

Italian		vociare (shout, vociferate), suono stridente, suono discordante; far rumore discordante, suono aspro, stridere (clash, creak, grate, jar, screech, squeak, squeal, yell), risuonare (halls, ring, ring out, sound, vibrate), berciare. (various references)

Manx		jingleyragh (jangly, wrangling). (various references)

Norwegian		skramling, skramle, rasling, rasle. (various references)

Pig Latin		anglejay

Portuguese		som discordante, fazer barulho (burr, chatter, clatter, clutter, noise, racket, rampage, riot, roister, splutter, vandalize, wallop), discutir ruidosamente, chocalhar (brattle, jingle, rattle), altercar (altercate, quarrel, question, wrangle), altercação ruidosa. (various references)

Romanian		vorbi zgomotos (bawl), trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gab, gibber, gossip, jabber, Maunder, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, yap), sunet aspru (jar), suna aspru, se sfãdi, se certa (altercate, be at odds, brawl, dispute, fall foul of, fall out, go foul of, haggle, quarrel, row, run foul of, spar, squabble, wrangle), rosti zgomotos, larmã (din, noise, racket, row, tumult, uproar), gãlãgie (Babel, bluster, brawling, bustle, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, racket, rattle, rhubarb, rioting, row, stir, to-do, tumult), distona (disagree, sing out of tune), ceartã (altercation, Bicker, bobbery, brawl, breeze, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, discord, discussion, dispute, dissension, friction, loggerhead, misunderstanding, quarrel, row, scrap, set to, squabble, squall, Stour, strife, tussle, wrangle). (various references)

Russian		резкий звук (scream, skirl, zip), шумно спорить, шуметь (brawl, din, make a noise, make noise, rag, raise jack, whir, whirr), пререкания (brabble, dispute, wrangle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tandrkati (clatter), neskladan zvuk. (various references)

Spanish		cencerreo (tinkle, tinkling). (various references)

Swedish		oljud (ado, Charivari, din, jangling, noise), gnissla (chirp, creak, grate, jar, screech, squeak). (various references)

Thai		เสียงที่เกิ�"จากการกระทบกันของโลหะ, เกิ�"เสียง�"ังจากการกระทบกันของโลหะ, ทำให้เกิ�"เสียงจากโลหะกระทบกัน, ทำให้เกิ�"ความรำคาญ, ทุ่มเถียง. (various references)

Turkish		uyumsuz ses, tartışmak (altercate, argue, bat around, Bicker, brawl, bust, canvass, challenge, contend, controvert, debate, discuss, dispute, have a row with, have a set-to, have words with smb., join issue with smb., moot, negotiate, set to, spar, take issue with smb., wrangle), tartışma (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, brawl, breeze, broil, bust up, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, cross talk, debate, disagreement, discussion, disputation, dispute, hassle, moot, parley, quarrel, rap, row, set to, shooting match, spar, sparring, teach-in, wordy warfare, wrangle), tıngırtı (clink, clinking, rattle, strum, tang, tinkling, twang), tıngırdamak (clang, clink, rattle, ting, tinkle, twang), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jar, kick up, miff, odds, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), atışmak (altercate, bandy, bandy words, Bicker, have a row with, have a tiff, have words with smb., quarrel, spat, squabble), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), çıngırtı (tinkle), çıngırdatmak (tinkle), çıngırdamak (tinkle). (various references)

Ukrainian		сварка (altercation, broil, controversy, embroilment, muss, odds, quarrel, shindy, squabble, upset), сперечатися (altercate, argue, bandy, contend, contest, dispute, squabble, thwart, wrangle), різкий звук (jar, phit, scream, skirl, snap, twang), гомін (babble, buzz, charm, chirm, clabber, clamor, clamour, hullabaloo, hum, noise), бряжчати (chink, clang, clank). (various references)

Vietnamese		tiếng kêu chói tai. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tinniant, tinnient. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	jangler. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "jangle": jangled, jangler, janglers, jangles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Jangle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ajangle, ajingle, gangel, gangle, Hangle, jagle, Jagoe, Janela, janelar, jangal, Jangali, Jangley, jang-lim, Janl, janle, janole, Janoli, Jaonli, jengle, jinglet, Jingwei, jinole, jintle, jinzle, jongle, Jonglei, Jonjoli, jungli, kang-lu, Nangle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "jangle" (pronounced ja"nggul)
5	-a" ng g u l	angle, bangle, dangle, disentangle, entangle, mangle, Spangle, strangle, tangle, untangle, wangle, wrangle.
4	-ng g u l	antifungal, commingle, Dingle, fungal, Ingle, intermingle, jingle, jungle, Mangel, mingle, mongol, rectangle, shingle, single, swingle, tingle, triangle.
3	-g u l	algal, bagel, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, conjugal, eagle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, jiggle, juggle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, milligal, mogul, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, regal, smuggle, snuggle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, struggle, toggle, wiggle, wriggle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-j-l-n"
	-1 letter: angel, angle, glean.
	-2 letters: egal, elan, gaen, gale, gane, glen, jane, jean, lane, lang, lean.
	-3 letters: age, ale, ane, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, jag, lag, lea, leg, nae, nag.
	-4 letters: ae, ag, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-j-l-n"
	+1 letter: jangled, jangler, jangles.
	+2 letters: janglers, janglier, jargonel.
	+3 letters: jangliest, jargonels.
	+4 letters: javelining, judgmental.
	+5 letters: conjugately, ejaculating.
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