Word Meanings - JANGLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Jangling. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to JANGLERY)

• JANGLING
  Producing discordant sounds. "A jangling noise." Milton.
• JANGLERESS
  A female prater or babbler.
• JANGLERY
  Jangling. Chaucer.
• JANGLE
  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;
• JANGLER
  1. An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer. 2. A wrangling, noisy fellow.
• INTERJANGLE
  To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. Daniel.