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What do you think this colloquial word means?
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Ann | Report | 28 Jan 2005 20:22 |
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I remember they used to use it alot in Brookside to mean a gossip- I assumed it was a Liverpool word. |
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Unknown | Report | 28 Jan 2005 20:08 |
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who knows what goes on,behind closed curtains lol bryan. |
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Daniel | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:45 |
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Interesting. Do they use whips in the village too? |
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Unknown | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:41 |
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daniel, in our small village,in south wales,the local gossip,would be referred to as..mrs jangles.. bryan. |
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Daniel | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:37 |
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Well, in 1882, a woman accused someone of "jangling" about her, before striking her 3 times with a whip (as you do.) So Byran was right in saying that it was to chat about somebody. |
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Unknown | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:14 |
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It's a metallic sound, but also used colloquially when you are irritated by something - nerves jangling etc. Mandy :) |
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Daniel | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:11 |
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Someone is right |
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Paul (Tigger) | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:10 |
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a metallic sound; "the jangle of spurs" make a sound typical of metallic objects; Paul |
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Paul (Tigger) | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:06 |
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as in jangle yer keys Paul |
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Unknown | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:03 |
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used in the countryside....chatterbox. bryan. |
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Unknown | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:03 |
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I've always understood it to mean 'rattle' or 'clank', as in a bunch of keys 'jangling', but Bob Dylan wrote a song in the 1960s about a 'Mr Bo Jangles', so maybe it has another meaning, but I never knew what it was. CB >|< |
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ஐ+*¨^¨*+e+*¨^¨*+ஐ Mildred Honkinbottom | Report | 28 Jan 2005 19:00 |
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a metallic sound |
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Unknown | Report | 28 Jan 2005 18:58 |
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thats the one Maz - as in oooh me nerves are all of a jangle |
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Maz from Cornwall | Report | 28 Jan 2005 18:57 |
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To be irritated by something? |
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Daniel | Report | 28 Jan 2005 18:56 |
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"Jangle." I know, but can you guess? I'll give the answer at half past. |
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