jingle

[JinĀ·gle]

To jingle is to make a sound like pieces of metal jangling together, like those bells people sing about at Christmas. A jingle is also a funny little poem or song.

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To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.

Noun
a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"

Noun
a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"

Verb
make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"


v. i.
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.

v. i.
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.

v. t.
To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.

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

n.
That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.

n.
A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.


Jingle

Jin"gle , v. i. [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle.] 1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.] 2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.

Jingle

Jin"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jingled ; p. pr. & vb. n. 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

Jin"gle, n. 1. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal. 2. 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.
3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself." The least jingle of verse." Guardian. Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.

To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.

To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.

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

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Usage Examples

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

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