jungle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡəl
Forms: form: jungles
form: jangal
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.
Senses: examples: text: As Tarzan walked down the wild cañon beneath the brilliant African moon the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage freedom filled his heart with life and buoyancy. Again he was Tarzan of the Apes—every sense alert against the chance of surprise by some jungle enemy—yet treading lightly and with head erect, in proud consciousness of his might.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantyne Books, published 1963, page 81:
glosses: A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
glosses: Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
examples: text: It’s a jungle out there.
text: The first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first.
ref: 1984, Barry Ellem, Doing Time, page 25:
text: But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!
ref: 2005, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and the Process of Alien Abduction:
glosses: A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
examples: text: […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A tangled mess.
glosses: An area where hobos camp together.
examples: text: Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.
ref: 1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire:
text: In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.
ref: 2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, page 291:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
examples: text: Hitting from the Jungle. The rough at some courses is just weeds and sparse grass, as often as not giving a player a decent lie to shoot from. But grass above four inches is nasty. It will grab your club and alter your shots.
ref: 2006, Rob Blumer, Rex Chaney, Essential golf instruction, page 167:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: tiger country
glosses: Dense rough.
glosses: A dense mass of pubic hair.
Derived terms: asphalt jungle
beat like a jungle drum
blackboard jungle
concrete jungle
dark jungle glory
hobo jungle
it's a jungle out there
jungle babbler
jungle bear
jungle bendy
jungle boot
jungle bunny
jungle cat
jungle cock
jungle crow
jungle curry
jungled
jungle drums
jungle fever
jungle fowl
junglefowl
jungle glory
jungle green
jungle gym
jungle hen
jungle juice
jungle justice
jungleless
junglelike
jungle mouth
jungle nymph
jungle primary
jungler
jungle raj
jungle rice
jungle rot
jungleside
jungle telegraph
junglewear
junglewood
junglism
junglist
jungly
jungular
King of the Jungle
law of the jungle
Meinong's jungle
nonjungle
rubber jungle
smoky jungle frog
underjungle
vajungle
you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey