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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.
Jan·gling a. Producing discordant sounds. “A jangling noise.”
Jan·gling, n.
1. Idle babbling; vain disputation.
From which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling. --1 Tim. i. 6.
2. Wrangling; altercation.
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jangling
adj : like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects
striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs" [syn:
jangly]