different between tolling vs jangle

English

Etymology

From Middle English tolling.

Verb

tolling

1. present participle of toll

Noun

tolling (plural tollings)

1. The act by which a bell is tolled.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From tollen (“to bring”) +? -ing (“gerund ending”).

Alternative forms

• tollynge, tollingue, tollunge, tolyng

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?lin?/

Noun

tolling (plural tollynges)

2. (rare) convincing; attraction or captivation
3. (rare) tempting; the act of incitement
4. (rare) dragging, forcibly taking along
5. (rare) (a bell) striking, ringing

Descendants

• English: tolling

References

• “tolling(e, ger.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Etymology 2

Noun

tolling

2. Alternative form of tollynge (“tax collection”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English janglen (“to talk excessively, chatter, talk idly”), from Old French jangler (“to chatter, gossip, bawl, argue noisily”), perhaps from Frankish *jangelon (“to jeer”) (compare Middle Dutch jangelen (“to whine”)) and ultimately imitative.

The music sense is said to derive from a line in the song Mr. Tambourine Man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?æ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Verb

jangle (third-person singular simple present jangles, present participle jangling, simple past and past participle jangled)

1. (intransitive) To make a rattling metallic sound.
2. (transitive) To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
3. (transitive) To irritate.

4. To quarrel in words; to wrangle.

Translations

Noun

jangle (plural jangles)

1. A rattling metallic sound.
2. (music, attributive) A sound typically characterized by undistorted, treble-heavy electric guitars, characteristic of 1960s pop.

   Synonym: jingle-jangle

3. (obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Translations

Usage notes

• Somewhat harsher than jingle.

Derived terms

• ajangle
• jangle pop
• jangly

Related terms

• jingle

References