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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
jangly is an adjective meaning "like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together". It carries one recorded sense.
like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together
“cowboys with jangling spurs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jangly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.