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Word Meanings - JANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

or German origin; cf. D. jangelen, janken, to whimper, chide, brawl, 1. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. 2. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer. 3. To quarrel in words;

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or German origin; cf. D. jangelen, janken, to whimper, chide, brawl, 1. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. 2. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer. 3. To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree. Shak. Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner. Carlyle.

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  • WRANGLE
    An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
  • ACCORD
    1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton. 2. To agree in pitch and tone.
  • SLANGINESS
    Quality of being slangy.
  • CONFUSIVE
    Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
  • CONCURRENCE
    1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
  • CONFUS
    Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
  • JARGON
    A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
  • ACCORDANCY
    Accordance. Paley.
  • ACCORDANTLY
    In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • ACCORDINGLY
    1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
  • JANGLERESS
    A female prater or babbler.
  • BRAWLING
    1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
  • CONFUSE
    1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
  • LINGOT
    A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.
  • CONFUSABILITY
    Capability of being confused.
  • AGREER
    One who agrees.
  • ACCORDING
    Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
  • ACCORDMENT
    Agreement; reconcilement. Gower.
  • CONCURRING
    Agreeing. Concurring figure , one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
    Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
  • SHAGREEN
    To chagrin.
  • DISAGREER
    One who disagrees. Hammond.
  • BON-ACCORD
    Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
  • BAGREEF
    The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • NOLO CONTENDERE
    A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.

 

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