🇬🇧 Jangly meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

“Jangly” describes a sound that is loud, clattery, and shaky, like keys, coins, or thin pieces of metal bumping and ringing against each other. If something is jangly, it makes a noisy, clinking, sometimes annoying sound when it moves or gets shaken.

Our homemade band had one drum, one kazoo, and a big jangly bucket of spoons for special effects.

Every step the knight took in his armor sounded like a jangly shopping cart full of frying pans.

The toy robot’s dance was cool, but its jangly metal arms sounded like a fork fighting a pot.

When I shook my piggy bank, the jangly coins inside screamed, “Emergency meeting!”

The skeleton’s jangly bones rattled so much that even the ghosts asked him to keep it down.

At dawn an old man pushed a cart with a jangly ring of keys that tapped the metal. A child grinned at a jangly bracelet on his wrist. Pigeons flew when a jangly bell on the cart began to swing. The jangly sound filled the street; the child clapped, followed, and walked beside the jangly parade.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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