English▸ verb make or cause to make a ringing metallic sound, typically a discordant one:
[no object] a bell jangled loudly
[with object] Ryan stood on the terrace jangling his keys.
▪ [with object] (with reference to nerves) set on edge:
a thirty-eight point game that jangled the nerves.
▸ noun [in singular] a ringing metallic sound:
the jangle of a telephone.
– ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘talk excessively or noisily, squabble’): from Old French jangler, of unknown origin.