jangle /ˈd͡ʒeɪ̯ŋɡəl/verb 7noun 4forms 5 verb7 •To cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound.Now see what noble and most soueraigne reason / Like sweet bells iangled, out of time, and harsh, /That vnmatcht forme, and stature of blowne youth / Blasted with extacie, […] — 1599 •To make a rattling metallic sound. •(figurative) To irritate or jar (something).The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves. •(figurative) To express or say (something) in an argumentative or harsh manner.You always could / Find that soft spot in me when I was angry / You always could / Jangle everything that I would say / Until you got it your way — 1978 •(Northern-England) Of a person: to speak loudly or too much; to chatter, to prate; of a bird: to make a noisy chattering sound.It was usual then about midnight, when there was no noise in the house, but all still, to hear the two nightingales jangling, and talking with each other, and plainly imitating men's discourses. — 1791 •(no longer used) To speak in an angry or harsh manner.Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner. — 1837 •(no longer used) To quarrel verbally; to wrangle.Good witts will be iangling, but gentles agree, / This ciuill warre of wittes were much better vsed / On Nauar and his Bookmen, for heere tis abused. — 1595 noun4 •A rattling metallic sound; a clang.E'en as she spake they heard the musical jangle of sleigh-bells, / First far off, with a dreamy sound and faint in the distance, […] — 1873 •[before a noun] A sound typified by undistorted, treble-heavy electric guitars, played in a droning chordal style, characteristic of 1960s folk rock and 1980s indie rock music. •(figurative) The sound of people talking noisily. •(figurative, no longer used) Arguing, contention, squabbling.But now Sir Peter if we have finish'd our daily Jangle I presume I may go to my engagement at Lady Sneerwell's? — 1777 formsjangled · jangling · jangles · jangleth · janglest