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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Jan·gle v. i.  [imp. & p. p. Jangled p. pr. & vb. n. Jangling ]
 1.  To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
 2.  To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. “Thou janglest as a jay.”
 3.  To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
    Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.   --Shak.
    Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.   --Carlyle.