north. dial. intr. To make a loud ringing sound; to clang or twang. Hence Changing vbl. sb.
1614. G. Markham, Cheap Husb., II. xxii. (1668), 79. A certain hollow changing in his mouth.
1807. Stagg, Poems, 140. Wi merry lilts the fidlers chang, The lads and lasses bicker.
Chang, var. of CANG, Obs., fool, foolish.