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/dʒˈɪŋgəl/ Listen

noun

Jingle n.

A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.

That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. "If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly."

A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, A rhyming verse of no poetical merit. " The least jingle of verse." Note: The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung.

Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.

verb

Jingle v. t. (past & past part. jingled; pres. part. jingling) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. "The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew."

Jingle v. i.

To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. (Written also gingle)

To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads."

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Etymology of 'Jingle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jingle" Quotes from Famous Books

... fair fight! My Persian kitten for your silver bells, Chinna Tumbe, and my cunning mungooz for your golden chain!" And Chinna Tumbe laughs, and claps his hands, and dances for delight, and all his silver bells jingle gleefully. And the pleasant peddler all the way from Cabool says, "Step without the gate, Little Brother, if you would see my pretty kitten play tricks; if you would stroke my cunning mungooz, step without ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine," so sings— Miss Cora Vere, who writes jingle for the Anti-Saloon press, and this is the reply that the R. ...

— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... known how to look after yourself each time," said the grinder. "If you can only get on so far as to hear the money jingle in your pocket whenever you stand up, you will ...

— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers

... no sacredness, then, any longer in the miraculous tongue of man? Is his head become a wretched cracked pitcher, on which you jingle to frighten crows, and makes bees hive? He fills me with terror, this two-legged rhetorical phantasm! I could long for an Oliver without rhetoric at all. I could long for a Mahomet, whose persuasive eloquence, with wild-flashing heart and scimiter, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

... jingle Of its forward-footing tune I could see the armies mingle, And the columns ...

— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy

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