Jargles vs Jangles - What's the difference?
jargles | jangles |
(jargle)
(obsolete) To emit a harsh or discordant sound.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
(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 jargles and jangles
is that jargles is third-person singular of jargle while jangles is third-person singular of jangle.jargles
English
Verb
(head)jargle
English
Verb
(jargl)- 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.
jangles
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)