jangleryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

janglery (uncountable)

1. (rare, dated) Chatter; gossip.
   • 1767, Weever, John, 1576-1632, Tooke, William, 1744-1820, Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent‎, page 430:

     See there be no entrance into princes' courts, either of drunkenneſs, ill-ſpeaking, babling indiſcreetly, flattery, janglery, buffoonery, and ſuch other vices, which ſoil and ſhame the reputation of men.

   • 1861, Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866, A compendious history of English literature, and of the English language, from the Norman conquest. With numerous specimens‎, page 343:

     For it is written, the janglery of women ne can nothing hide, save that which they wot not.

   • 1900, William Caxton, c. 1415-c. 1492, The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, as englished by William Caxton‎, London : J. M. Dent, page 217:

     S. Gregory saith in his dialogues that there was a nun Sabina which held her continent of her flesh, but she eschewed not the janglery of her tongue [.]

   • 1975, Heyer, Georgette, 1902-1974, My Lord John‎, page 75:

     “Yes, I think. He doesn’t hold by Lancaster now, at all events. Ask Thomas! He knows all the scullions’ janglery!”

   • 1995, Larrington, Carolyne, Women and writing in medieval Europe : a sourcebook‎, page 73:

     And by this way of behaving, you shall not be put in their janglery and talking and will not have blame or defame of the world.

   • 2001, Dessau, Joanna, Cock robin‎, page 107:

     ‘Nonsense!’ he shouted. ‘I never heard such folly! You are the elder, ’tis your right to be first, foolish one. Do not prate such janglery to me, my Lord Earl of Warwick!’