Jingled vs Jangled - What's the difference?
jingled | jangled |
(jingle)
The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
A short tune or verse, especially one used to advertise something.
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To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
(dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
* Macaulay
(jangle)
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 jingled and jangled
is that jingled is past tense of jingle while jangled is past tense of jangle.jingled
English
Verb
(head)jingle
English
Noun
(en noun)- He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
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Verb
- The beads jingled as she walked.
- She jingled the beads as she walked.
- Jingling street ballads.
Derived terms
* jingle bellSee also
* clink * rattle ----jangled
English
Verb
(head)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)
