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jargle

/ˈd͡ʒɑː(ɹ)ɡəl/

jargle verb: to emit a harsh or discordant sound.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To emit a harsh or discordant sound.
    • 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
    • Where syrt sucks jargling javels mad1908, Jean Louis De Esque, Betelguese, a trip through hell

Forms of jargle

third-person singular presentjargles
present participlejargling
past participlejargled
pastjargled

Origin of jargle

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

Questions about jargle

What does jargle mean?
Jargle means to emit a harsh or discordant sound.
What part of speech is jargle?
Jargle is a verb.
How do you pronounce jargle?
Jargle is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɑː(ɹ)ɡəl/.
What is the past tense of jargle?
The past tense of jargle is jargled.

Words near jargle in the dictionary

  1. jarflies
  2. jarfly
  3. jarful
  4. jarfuls
  5. jarg
  6. jargle
  7. jargled
  8. jargles
  9. jargling
  10. jargon
  11. jargon aphasia

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