jargle
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Etymology edit
Compare Old Swedish jerga (“to repeat angrily, to brawl”), Icelandic jarg (“tedious iteration”), French jargonner (“to talk jargon”). See jargon.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
jargle (third-person singular simple present jargles, present participle jargling, simple past and past participle jargled)
- (obsolete) To emit a harsh or discordant sound.
- c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:
- 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.
- 1908, Jean Louis De Esque, Betelguese, a trip through hell:
- Where syrt sucks jargling javels mad