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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

... jingle of trailing spur Buck Weaver passed from the post-office to the porch, where public opinion was wont to formulate itself while waiting for the mail to be distributed. Here twice a week it had sat for many years, had heard evidence, passed judgment, condemned or acquitted. For at this ...

— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine

... enough, enjoy an average of prosperity that is above that witnessed in any other country. Their land, with less labour, yields a greater usufruct than other land; they get more money for their industry; they jingle more coin in their pockets than other peoples. But it is a grievous error to mistake that superior opulence for a sign of money-hunger, for they actually hold money very lightly, and spend a great deal more of ...

— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... till it hurt, but on her lips a smile was growing, and she seemed to listen intently to some outside sound. There was a jingle of dog bells, and a man's voice crying "Haw!" as a sled took the turning and drew up at ...

— The God of His Fathers • Jack London

... able to be astonished. Her whole mind expressed itself in that proud cluck, and pert, excited carriage. She had done a wonderful thing, and she didn't know how she had done it. Bel "read it like coarse print,"—as her step-mother was wont to say of her own perspicacities,—and put it into jingle, as she had a trick of ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... and opened it, and out tumbled ever so many bright pennies into her lap—quite enough to astonish the postman, and make him wish he could sell her six letters at once. Bella clapped her hands and laughed, and thumped her heels merrily up and down, and made the pennies jingle in her lap so pleasantly, that it seemed as if they were singing ...

— The Little Nightcap Letters. • Frances Elizabeth Barrow

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