Bickering vs Jangle - What's the difference?
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Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.
* 1820 , in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough , By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading.
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To make a rattling metallic sound.
To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
* Shakespeare
To irritate.
To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
A rattling metallic sound.
* Longfellow
(obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
Bickering is a related term of jangle.
As nouns the difference between bickering and jangle
is that bickering is petty quarreling usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults while jangle is a rattling metallic sound.As verbs the difference between bickering and jangle
is that bickering is while jangle is to make a rattling metallic sound.bickering
English
Noun
(en noun)- Meeting of Parliament. — Choice of a whig Speaker. — Speech from the throne. — Parliamentary proceedings, and party bickerings .
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Verb
(head)jangle
English
Verb
- Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune, and harsh.
- The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
- Good wits will be jangling ; but, gentles, agree.
- Prussian Trenck jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
Noun
(en noun)- the musical jangle of sleigh bells
- (Chaucer)