Clangour vs Jangle - What's the difference?
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(British, Canadian) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
* 1920 , , Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
(British, Canadian) To make a clanging sound.
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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.
Clangour is a related term of jangle.
As nouns the difference between clangour and jangle
is that clangour is (british|canadian) a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din while jangle is a rattling metallic sound.As verbs the difference between clangour and jangle
is that clangour is (british|canadian) to make a clanging sound while jangle is to make a rattling metallic sound.clangour
English
Alternative forms
* clangor (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour , and making him mad.
Derived terms
* clangorous * clangorouslyVerb
(en verb)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)
