▪ (with reference to nerves) set on edge:"a thirty-eight point game that jangled the nerves"Similargrate onjar onirritatedisturbassaultfrayraspput/set on edgeshredrub rawtestrattlestretch tightwreak havoc oninformal:get on
noun
1. a ringing metallic sound:"the jangle of a telephone"
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘talk excessively or noisily, squabble’): from Old French jangler, of unknown origin.