Middle English Dictionary Entry
janglere n.
Entry Info
| Forms | janglere n. Also jangeler(e, jang(e)lour, yanglour, (error) chagler & ǧang(e)lere. |
| Etymology | OF janglëor, -our, ganglëor. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An idle talker, excessive talker, chatterbox; (b) a talebearer, gossip, backbiter, calumniator; (c) an eloquent person, a speech maker; (d) a raconteur, teller of dirty stories; ?also, a professional entertainer; (e) a boaster; (f) as surname [?OF].
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.467 : In a tyme at a feste þere iangelers [L fatuorum dicacitas] scheweþ hem self most.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)40a/b : He wakeþ more þan oþir men & ben hardy & greet Iangelers & veyn spekers [L vaniloqui] & vnstable.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)9307 : For Ianglers þys tale y tolde, Þat þey yn cherche here tunges holde.
- a1400 Cato(3) (Frf 14)76 : Be mesurable of worde, and loke quat þou sais atte þou be haldin na Iangelere.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.7.15 : Nyle thou be a ianglere [WB(1): ful of wrdis; L verbosus] in the multitude of preestis.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)73b/b : Onyng forsoþ in organic is impossible..whatso euer Jangelers [*Ch.(2): Jangelers; L garrulatores] seiþ.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)27 : It is abhomynable thynge and grete reproofe to a mayden or virgyne to be a grete iangelere.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)1745 : 'Who schuld þis ground..Bere swech a werk of so huge a witz?'..Thus seyde þei þane, Iangeleris in þe route.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)256 : Iangelere, fulle of wordys: Semiverbius [read: Seminiverbius].
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)747 : Wise men sum tyme letes to say Wordes þat menes bot wele alway, Becaus þai wil no ianglers be.
- a1450 Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)409 : Qwat! bissop, byssop babler, Schold y of Det hau dred! Þou art bot a chagler.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)52a/a : He þat is coler..hise maners ben proude; he is liȝt & vnstidefast, greet iangler & ful of wraþþe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)66b : A Jangiller:..poliloquus.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)139.12 : Man ianglere [L vir linguosus] sall noght be rightid in erth..Janglere is he til whaim spekynge is lust, and lufis leghis, and bihaldis noght what he says..and if a man say soth withouten nede, he is a ianglere.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)227/14 : Tho that haue ribbis bocchynge owtwardes..bene yanglours, and folis in wordys.
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)149/1 : Nygh to ayse thay wolde euer to be sette. Iangleris, bosteris, and of grete othis, stronge lyeris, lycheres.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)G.343,348 : A tonge kutteth frendship al atwo, A ianglere is to god abhomynable..Dissimule as thow were deef if that thow heere A ianglere speke of perilous matere.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.425 : This janglere Envious..be it noght so lyte Wherof that he mai sette a wyte, Ther renneth he with open mouth Behinde a man and makth it couth.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.887 : These janglers, whiche of here Envie Ben evere redi forto lie.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.519 : Thanne hath he redi his aspie..A janglere..That sche ne mai nowhider gon, Ne speke a word..That he ne wol it wende and croke..Whan that the lord comth hom ayein, The janglere moste somwhat sein.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)57 : Be no iangeler ne to the knyng grete reportur of tydynges.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)98 : Echo was a fayre woman, and..she was wont to be to grete a iangelere and..on a day accused Juno.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)11.2 : Thai ere swikil lippes, that is ianglers, berkand agayn sothfastnes.
c
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.8.4 : Chide thou not with a man, a ianglere [WB(1): a tungy man; L homine linguato], and leie thou not trees in to his fier.
d
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.560 : He was a iangler [vr. ganglere] and a goliardeys, And that was moost of synne and harlotries.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)prol.35 : Somme merþis to make as mynstralis conne..giltles I trowe; Ac Iaperis & iangleris [vr. Ianglours], Iudas children, Fonden hem fantasies & foolis hem make..Qui loquitur turpiloquium [is] luciferis hyne.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.31 : Harlotes for her harlotrye may haue of her godis, And iaperes and iogeloures and iangelers of gestes.
- a1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)3405 : No scholde mon haue herd þe þondur For þe noise of þe taboures And þe trumpours and jangelours [Ld: jugelours].
e
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)163b/a : Men of suche londes ben noȝt..so grete Iangelers and boisters [L clamosi] as other ben.
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)457 : If she me fynde fals, Unkynde, janglere..Or jelous, do me hangen by the hals!
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)27b : Y haue leuer be founde a bolde, buxum gangelere, my lyche lordes comaundement fulfillyng, þan..vnbuxum, schameful, his heste denyenge.
f
- (1293) Chester R.in Chet.n.s.84184 : [Hull the] Gangelere.