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Jangle vs Burr - What's the difference?

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Jangle is a related term of burr.


As a verb jangle

is to make a rattling metallic sound.

As a noun jangle

is a rattling metallic sound.

As a proper noun burr is

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jangle

English

Verb

  • To make a rattling metallic sound.
  • To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune, and harsh.
  • To irritate.
    • The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
  • To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Good wits will be jangling ; but, gentles, agree.
  • * Carlyle
    • Prussian Trenck jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rattling metallic sound.
  • * Longfellow
    • the musical jangle of sleigh bells
  • (obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
    • (Chaucer)

    Usage notes

    * somewhat harsher than jingle

    Related terms

    * jangly * jingle

    burr

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) burre, perhaps from (etyl) , from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
  • A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
  • A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
  • * Tomlinson
    • The graver, in ploughing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs .
  • A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
  • A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
  • The earlobe.
  • The knot at the bottom of an antler.
    • Synonyms
    * (kind of seed pod) sticker; bur
    Derived terms
    * deburr

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeia, influenced by bur.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rough humming sound.
  • A rolled "r".

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pronounce with a rolled "r".
  • To make a rough humming sound.

    • Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
  • * :
    • And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere thorughoute the body more than a fadom / And whan syr Mordred felte that he had hys dethes wounde / He thryst hym self wyth the myght that he had vp to the bur of kynge Arthurs spere / And right so he smote his fader Arthur wyth his swerde holden in bothe his handes

    Etymology 4

    From burl.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British)
    • English onomatopoeias Geordie English