Fangles vs Jangles - What's the difference?
fangles | jangles |
(fangle)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To waste time; trifle.
(obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
A conceit; whim.
(jangle)
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.
As verbs the difference between fangles and jangles
is that fangles is (fangle) while jangles is (jangle).fangles
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*fangle
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(fangl)- To control and new fangle the Scripture.
Usage notes
Although obsolete in general English, the verb is still occasionally used in some regions, and is retained in the expression new fangled.Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Derived erroneously from as if (new) + fangle. See (l).Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*jangles
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Verb
(head)jangle
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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)
