different between harsh vs jargle

English

Etymology

From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”); the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Adjective

harsh (comparative harsher, superlative harshest)

1. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
2. Severe or cruel.

Antonyms

• genteel

Translations

Verb

harsh (third-person singular simple present harshes, present participle harshing, simple past and past participle harshed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
2. (transitive, slang) to put a damper on (a mood).

Synonyms

• rough

Derived terms

• harshly
• harshness

Translations

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????(?)??l/

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.
   • c. 1600, Joseph Hall, 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