Ajangle

//əˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Jangling. not-comparable

    "1913, Bert Leston Taylor, “Canopus” in Motley Measures, Chicago: The Laurentian Publishers, p. 14, When men are calling names and making faces, And all the world’s ajangle and ajar, I meditate on interstellar spaces And smoke a mild seegar."

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"1913, Bert Leston Taylor, “Canopus” in Motley Measures, Chicago: The Laurentian Publishers, p. 14, When men are calling names and making faces, And all the world’s ajangle and ajar, I meditate on interstellar spaces And smoke a mild seegar."

Etymology

From a- + jangle.

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