[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That jangles, in various senses of the verb.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., III. met. ii. 53 (Camb. MS.). The Iangelynge [v.r. Iangland] bryd þat syngeth on the heye braunches.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. xxi. 19. Betere is to dwelle in desert lond, than with a ianglende womman and wratheful.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 36, in Babees Bk. As Iangelynge as a Iay.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 175, note. A thing proper to iangling sophisters … in their quarrelling exercises.
1667. Milton, P. L., XII. 55. A jangling noise of words unknown.
1836. W. Irving, Astoria, II. 288. The lord and master has much difficulty in maintaining harmony in his jangling household.
1882. W. B. Weeden, Soc. Law Labor, 4. Freed from the conditions of this jangling modern time.
