jargle

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/ˈd͡ʒɑː(ɹ)ɡəl/

verb

To emit a harsh or discordant sound.

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Meanings

verbjargle (third-person singular simple present jargles, present participle jargling, simple past and past participle jargled)

present singular third person jargles · participle present jargling · participle past jargled · past jargled

  1. obsoleteTo emit a harsh or discordant sound.

    Where syrt sucks jargling javels mad

    1908, Jean Louis De Esque, Betelguese, a trip through hell
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    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.

    1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Origin

Compare Old Swedish jerga (“to repeat angrily, to brawl”), Icelandic jarg (“tedious iteration”), French jargonner (“to talk jargon”). See jargon.

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APA

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Chicago

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