▪ I. ˈjangling, vbl. n.
[f. jangle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. jangle, in its various senses; now chiefly, wrangling, noisy altercation; dissonant or discordant din of voices, bells, etc.
| a 1300 [see jangle v. 1]. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11604 Þe kyng..þen lifte his hed, When þei hadde þer ianglyng leued. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶332 Ianglynge is whan men speken to muche biforn folk and clappen as a Mille and taken no Kepe what they seye. 1463 Paston Lett. II. 133 If ony questions or jangelyng schuld be mad. 1526 Tindale 1 Tim. i. 6 From the which thynges some have erde, and have turned vnto vayne iangelynge. 1581 [see jangle v. 3]. 1663 Pepys Diary 8 June, After dinner my wife and I had a little jangling, in which she did give me the lie. 1686 Lond. Gaz. No. 2193/3 Nothing but Lamentations, and the Jangling of Bells for help, is heard. 1713 Steele Guardian No. 73 ¶8 They lose their respect towards us from this jangling of ours. 1812 Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 188 The ring was in confusion by the janglings of betting men. 1879 Farrar St. Paul (1883) 459 The harsh jangling of their timbrels. |
▪ II. ˈjangling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That jangles, in various senses of the verb.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iii. met. ii. 53 (Camb. MS.) The Iangelynge [v.r. Iangland] bryd þat syngeth on the heye braunches. 1382 Wyclif Prov. xxi. 19 Betere is to dwelle in desert lond, than with a ianglende womman and wratheful. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 36 in Babees Bk., As Iangelynge as a Iay. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 175 note, A thing proper to iangling sophisters..in their quarrelling exercises. 1667 Milton P.L. xii. 55 A jangling noise of words unknown. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 288 The lord and master has much difficulty in maintaining harmony in his jangling household. 1882 W. B. Weeden Soc. Law of Labor 4 Freed from the conditions of this jangling modern time. |