Jangle vs Jangling - What's the difference?
jangle | jangling |
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 jangle and jangling
is that jangle is to make a rattling metallic sound while jangling is .As nouns the difference between jangle and jangling
is that jangle is a rattling metallic sound while jangling is a jangle, the sounds of a jangle.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)