Usually means: Clashing, discordant sound; metallic noise.
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  1. jangle: Merriam-Webster
  2. jangle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jangle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jangle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jangle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jangle, jangle: Wordnik
  7. jangle: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Jangle, jangle: Dictionary.com
  9. jangle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. jangle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Jangle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Jangle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. jangle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. jangle: Rhymezone
  15. jangle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. jangle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. jangle: FreeDictionary.org
  18. jangle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. jangle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. jangle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  21. jangle: Wiktionary
  22. jangle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  23. jangle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  24. jangle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jangle: Legal dictionary

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jangle: A Word A Day
  2. jangle: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. jangle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jangle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. jangle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound.
verb:  To express or say (something) in an argumentative or harsh manner.
verb:  (figuratively) To irritate or jar (something).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To make a rattling metallic sound.
verb:  (archaic) To speak in an angry or harsh manner.
verb:  (archaic) To quarrel verbally; to wrangle.
verb:  (Northern England) Of a person: to speak loudly or too much; to chatter, to prate; of a bird: to make a noisy chattering sound.
noun:  A rattling metallic sound; a clang.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  The sound of people talking noisily.
noun:  (archaic) Arguing, contention, squabbling.
noun:  (music, attributively) 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.

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