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I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share.

JANGLE

To chat or gossip.

Jangle, jangle, jangle.

I typically associate this word with keys or bells. He jangled his keys as he walked.

There were huge masks people had to wear in some municipalities in the medieval era if they were deemed to gossip too much.

Some of those masks even had bells on them.

I wonder if that’s where jangle came from. I like that better than the dictionary.com source which is a 1250’s word. Middle English janglen, Old French jangler, Germanic and Middle Dutch janglen, meaning to haggle or whine.