(v. i.) To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
(v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.
(v. i.) To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
(v. t.) To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.
(n.) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
(n.) Discordant sound; wrangling.
Example Sentences:
(1) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(2) However, I haven't forgotten gasping for a cigarette and being unable to have one – that vicious clawing from my chest to my throat, the jangling of nerves and shortening of temper.
(3) Our destiny is in our own hands and hopefully we won’t jangle the nerves any longer than we need to.
(4) Collars upturned, gold chains jangling, Kyrgios got his serve back and perhaps sensed a comeback to match last year’s record-breaking effort when he recovered from two sets down as a 19-year-old wildcard.
(5) They began to put more pressure on the Poles, whose nerves jangled.
(6) Grazing cows jangled their bells, farmers continued to plough the slopes, while keeping closely aware of shudders and tremors.
(7) The way that one’s listening habits are monitored and then turned into recommendations jangled his East German nerves.
(8) In other words, Ukip's success is manifested not just in byelection results and column inches devoted to the party itself, but in the sense that, with both jangled nerves and a palpable relief, the Conservatives are reverting to type.
(9) Lucy says she was marched through the hospital reception "jangling like Marley's ghost", and the officers did all the talking.
(10) Spurs jangling and lances poised, the coalition partners are off, tilting at each other for the delectation of their party conferences.
(11) At the beginning of this process, editors remove the audio recordings taken during filming and break down each scene into four sonic elements: dialogue, effects, music and Foley, which is the term for everyday sounds such as squeaky shoes or cutlery jangling in a drawer.
(12) With the scoreline at 3-2, for example, and the nerves jangling, he brought on two attack-minded players – Tomas Rosicky and Lukas Podolski – in the 83rd minute.
(13) This was yet another occasion when Arsenal's nerves jangled and there was the collective offering-up of prayers from the home seats when Wilfried Bony flexed those mighty neck muscles to thump an early header down and into the near corner of the net.
(14) Brought in at the instigation of the new chief executive, David Abraham, with the promise to refashion Channel 4 , the Big Brother-shaped hole in her schedule has set nerves jangling.
(15) I would hear the jangling of keys and think that this was the time the prison officers were going to come and open the cell door and set us free.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Australia claimed their ticket to Brazil but fans' nerves were kept jangling in a manner befitting of the Socceroos' often tortured World Cup history.
(17) 1970s: Dancing in Your Head Facebook Twitter Pinterest In the 1970s, the restless contrarian decided to unleash a whole new jangle of startling sounds – electric ones this time.
(18) The Tory leadership duly poured cold water on his suggestion, but the underlying thinking was hardly revelatory: Ukip's rise is jangling Tory nerves, and with good reason.
(19) September 9, 2015 If that message weren’t quite clear enough, the jangle-pop indie band had already posted an official collective statement on Facebook before releasing Stipe’s unfiltered opinion: While we do not authorize or condone the use of our music at this political event, and do ask that these candidates cease and desist from doing so, let us remember that there are things of greater importance at stake here.
(20) Given the way Derby County threw away promotion from a seemingly unassailable position last season, nerves may be jangling after their fourth league game without a win, a limp 3-0 home defeat to Birmingham City .
Jingle
Definition:
(v. i.) To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
(v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
(v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
(n.) A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
(n.) That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
(n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) There isn't a huge amount of production going into this, but even so, there are jingles, and adverts alerting prisoners to support and rehab services.
(2) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
(3) There's a scene in Friday Night Dinner when Adam, a jingle writer by trade, gathers the family around a radio to hear his ditty for a car-insurance company.
(4) Now it hosts the headquarters of BBC Scotland and Scottish Television and something called The Hub, which seems to be a honeycomb of "units" and "pods" for people who want to make animated short films and radio advertising jingles.
(5) Another Guangzhou lawyer, Tang Jingling, may also be missing.
(6) You must have known,” Price says – laconic, nasal, one leg casually hitched up on the bench, endlessly jingling coins in his pocket – “that to give a senior public figure an arrest warning could lead to a complaint direct to the commissioner’s office.” Do you not see how important Mr Mitchell is?
(7) It's 6.30pm and I'm on the sofa, watching an overgrown blue woolly person with a red security blanket and a bell in his foot, who is squeaking and jingling through a sun-dappled wood in the company of a large, excitable dolly - her hair stands on end when she's especially thrilled - who says, 'Ooh!
(8) In jingle thinking the subjects internally jumped every second word in a nine-word circular jingle.
(9) The infamy did not come from the fact that the company was using a catchy jingle to get people addicted to carcinogens.
(10) Jingle shells … Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench and a tortoise star in the BBC adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot.
(11) Nonetheless there is more than a jingling ring of truth to his argument.
(12) The prisoner's final words as he was put to death by a massive overdose of pentobarbital, obtained from an unnamed Oklahoma compounding pharmacy, were: “I feel my whole body burning.” The Apothecary Shoppe makes up – or compounds – medication customised to individual customers under the jingle “the most important thing we did today was fill your prescription”.
(13) There are breast shampoo dispensers and a holiday gag gift you can’t unsee called Jingle Jugs .
(14) Other finds include an amber charm in the shape of a gladiator's helmet, which may have been a good luck charm for an actual gladiator; a horse harness ornament combining two lucky symbols, a fist and a phallus, plus clappers to make a jingling sound as the horse moved; and a set of fine-quality pewter bowls and cups, which were deliberately thrown into a deep well.
(15) If you want to get anywhere in life, jingle the coins.
(16) The party’s name – which echoes not just Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, but also a TV jingle for Spain’s European and World Cup-winning football team – came during a car journey a few months after the forming of the initial pact between Iglesias and Urbán.
(17) 'Sometimes the script is wrong, and Andy has to write on the hoof, sitting in front of the screen, and he makes up whole little jingles ... it all comes out.
(18) The digital sky with clouds that curdle before your eyes is unsettling and there’s a sitcom-like jingle playing on a tortuous loop.
(19) Inspired by Iona and Peter Opie's classic studies of the playground in the 1950s , which had documented the incorporation of advertising jingles and TV theme tunes into clapping and singing games, the researchers discovered children's games based on dance routines from Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor .
(20) To mark the new programme, which goes out between 11am and 1pm, there are some jazzy, slinky jingles and a revised acronym for the Togs.