jangle

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• /ˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl/ without æ-raising
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• [ˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl] ~ [ˈd͡ʒæŋɡl̩] without æ-raising
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• Canada, US: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ̯ŋɡəl/
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• Canada, US: [ˈd͡ʒeɪ̯ŋɡəl] ~ [ˈd͡ʒeɪ̯ŋɡl̩]
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• Canada, US: /ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ŋɡəl/
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• Canada, US: [ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ŋɡəl] ~ [ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ŋɡl̩]
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• rhymes with -æŋɡəl
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• CMU ARPABET: JH AE1 NG G AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English jangle (“gossip, idle talk; a dispute”), from Anglo-Norman jangle and Old French jangle (“gossip, idle talk; a dispute”), from Old French jangler (“to chatter, gossip; to argue noisily; to bawl”): see further at etymology 1. Later uses are derived directly from the verb. Sense 3 (“sound typified by undistorted, treble-heavy electric guitars”) is said to derive from a line in the song Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (born 1941): “Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me / In the jingle jangle morning, I’ll come following you.”

From Middle English janglen (“to talk excessively, chatter; to talk idly, gossip; to nag; to complain, grumble; to argue, debate; to discuss, talk; to talk indistinctly, jabber; to make a noise or outcry; of a bird: to chatter, twitter”) [and other forms], from Old French jangler (“to chatter, gossip; to argue noisily; to bawl”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old Dutch *jangelon (“to jeer”) (compare Middle Dutch jangelen (“to murmur, grumble, buzz, mutter, drone, simmer”), modern Dutch jengelen (“to whine, persistently nag, whimper”), though the Oxford English Dictionary finds this improbable) and ultimately imitative.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: дрънчене (drǎnčene) — rattling metallic sound — see also clang
• Finnish: kalina — rattling metallic sound — see also clang
• Serbo-Croatian: зве̏ка) — rattling metallic sound — see also clang
• Serbo-Croatian: zvȅka — rattling metallic sound — see also clang
• Spanish: ruido metálico — rattling metallic sound — see also clang
• Finnish: kalistaa — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Finnish: kalistella — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Georgian: მეტალის ხმის გამოცემა (meṭalis xmis gamocema) — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Hungarian: zörget — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Lithuanian: žvanginti — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Serbo-Croatian: зве̏цкати — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Serbo-Croatian: zvȅckati — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Spanish: hacer sonar — to cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound
• Bulgarian: дразня (draznja) — to irritate or jar (something)
• Finnish: raastaa — to irritate or jar (something)
• Georgian: გაღიზიანება (gaɣizianeba) — to irritate or jar (something)
• Hungarian: zörög — to irritate or jar (something)
• Serbo-Croatian: zvȍcati — to irritate or jar (something)
• Serbo-Croatian: зво̏цати — to irritate or jar (something)
• Spanish: crispar — to irritate or jar (something)
• Spanish: irritar — to irritate or jar (something)
• Bulgarian: дрънча (drǎnča) — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Finnish: kalista — to make a rattling metallic sound
• French: cliqueter — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Georgian: მეტალის ხმის გამოცემა (meṭalis xmis gamocema) — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Hungarian: zörög — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Lithuanian: žvangėti — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Serbo-Croatian: зве́чати — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Serbo-Croatian: zvéčati — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Slovak: štrngať — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Slovak: rinčať — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Slovak: cvendžať — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Slovak: štrgotať — to make a rattling metallic sound
• Spanish: hacer un ruido metálico — to make a rattling metallic sound