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jangle (1136-37)

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The form gengle is a cross reference to the following entry:

jangle (1136-37)

jaungle;  gangle,  gengle;  changle  (glenge  Mirur1 100va17)  
  FEW:  *jangalôn 16,280b Gdf:  jangle 4,632a GdfC: TL: jangle 4,1564 DEAF:  jangler (jangle) J116 DMF:  jangle  TLF: OED:  jangle n.  MED:  jangle n.  DMLBS:

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1babbling, (foolish) chatter
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  Large table et plentevouse Norit Jangle (var. (R: s.xivin) gangle; (O: s.xiv1/4) changle) surfetose  BOZ Prov (S) 43.88
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  jangle ceo est aver trop paroles par ceo k'il quide [plus] valer u plus saver ke li autre  Pecchez 208rb
( 1319 )  nous volomes savoir si vous voletz aultre chose dire, qe ceo qe vous dites n’est qe jangle et riont  YBB Ed II xxiv 147
gossip, slander
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Un juge [...] Mut desturba la devocyun Par jaungle male e venymouse [...]. Pur ceo endura greve venjaunce: Sis aunz aveyt desturbaunce, De sa launge esteyt muet  S Fran ANTS 8516
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  (in list of sins to be confessed) [...] de mençonges, de fause jangle  Ancren2 110.2
( c.1390; MS: s.xivex )  (I would visit you more often) Mais le fals jangle et le tresfals conspir De mesdisantz m’ont desturbé la voie  GOWER Balades 358.3
discord, bickering
( 1136-37; MS: s.xiv1 )  ensurketut cil de Hestengle tutjorz començouent la gangle (var. (D: s.xiiex) la gengle )  GAIMAR2 3358
2orn.soundzool.twittering
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Par jangle de la pie L'em vynt a troverie De gopil e de chat  Lyric 223.25
estre de grant jangle
to be chatty, garrulous
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Ceste recluse ou non ceste nonein est de grant favele ou de grant jangle  Ancren2 179.21

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See also:

jangleis  janglement  jangler  jangleresse  janglerie  janglur  janglure  regangler 
This is an AND2 Phase 3 (I/Y-M) entry. © 2008-2012 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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