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Jangle vs Hangle - What's the difference?

jangle | hangle |

As nouns the difference between jangle and hangle

is that jangle is a rattling metallic sound while hangle is a hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.

As a verb jangle

is to make a rattling metallic sound.

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

    hangle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
  • A form of hanger by which the scabbard of a sword was suspended, attached not necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, one over the left hip, the other near the middle of the back.