ajangle
Pronunciations
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/əˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl/
Adjective
Jangling.
Usage- not-comparable
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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.
Where the horrible clamor had merely set my nerves ajangle, it had plainly lacerated her like some evil bullwhip.
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That actually did make Cora feel better—enough that she took a deep breath and reminded herself that the mission was done and successful. No injuries, no pursuit... no reason to still feel so twitchy, her nerves all a-jangle.