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Webster 1913 Edition
Jingle
Jin′gle
,Verb.
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.
Jin′gle
,Verb.
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. Pope.
Jin′gle
,Noun.
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. Bacon.
3.
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.” Guardian.
The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called
jingles
, especially when sung. Jingle shell
. Webster 1828 Edition
Jingle
JIN'GLE
, v.i.1.
To make a sharp clattering sound; to ring as a little bell, or as small pieces of sonorous metal; as gingling halfpence.2.
To utter affected or chiming sounds in periods or cadence.