ajangle

a- +‎ jangle

• IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl/

ajangle (not comparable)

1. Jangling.
   • 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.

   • 1979, William Styron, chapter 15, in Sophie’s Choice‎, New York: Random House, page 462:

     Where the horrible clamor had merely set my nerves ajangle, it had plainly lacerated her like some evil bullwhip.