jangle

Meanings

1. To cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound.
2. To express or say (something) in an argumentative or harsh manner.
3. To irritate or jar (something).
4. To make a rattling metallic sound.
5. To speak in an angry or harsh manner.
6. To quarrel verbally; to wrangle.
7. Of a person: to speak loudly or too much; to chatter, to prate; of a bird: to make a noisy chattering sound.

1. A rattling metallic sound; a clang.
2. The sound of people talking noisily.
3. Arguing, contention, squabbling.
4. 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.

Etymology

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.