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Jangle vs Jargle - What's the difference?

jangle | jargle |

In obsolete terms the difference between jangle and jargle

is that jangle is idle talk; prate; chatter; babble while jargle is to emit a harsh or discordant sound.

As verbs the difference between jangle and jargle

is that jangle is to make a rattling metallic sound while jargle is to emit a harsh or discordant sound.

As a noun jangle

is 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

    jargle

    English

    Verb

    (jargl)
  • (obsolete) To emit a harsh or discordant sound.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Thy mother could thee for thy cradle set / Her husband's rusty iron corselet; / Whose jargling sound might rock her babe to rest, / That never plain'd of his uneasy nest.