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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.Definition 2024
jingle
jingle
English
Noun
jingle (plural jingles)
- The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
- (advertising) A short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
- The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
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- A carriage drawn by horses.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 85:
- They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.
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- (slang) A quick, brief phone call.
- Give me a jingle when you find out something.
- Alternative form of jingle shell
Translations
sound
short tune or verse
Verb
jingle (third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled)
- To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- The beads jingled as she walked.
- To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- She jingled the beads as she walked.
- (dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
- Macaulay
- Jingling street ballads.
- Macaulay
Translations
to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself
to cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself