[Reduplication of TWANGLE.] A representation of the continuous sounds of a harp or the like. Also as vb.
1634. Ford, Perkin Warbeck, III. ii. Discord of bells pipes and tabours Hodgepodge of Scotch and Irish twingle twangles.
1791. Burns, Lett. to A. Alison, 14 Feb. The twingle twangle of a Jew’s harp.
1900. Crockett, Black Douglas, 327. When he had … finished cocking his viol and twingle-twangling it to his satisfaction.
