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jingle 1, verb(dictionary)
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jingle (iou)



jingle verb & noun. Also gingle. LME.
[Imit.: cf. JANGLE verb, noun.]
A. verb.
verb intrans. Make a mixed noise as of coins, keys, or other small metallic objects being shaken together; make a light ringing sound more prolonged and continuous than clinking. LME.
b. Proceed or move with such a sound. M18.
verb trans. Cause to make such a sound. LME.
verb intrans.
a. Play with (the sounds of) words; derog. versify. M17.
b. Of prose or verse: be characterized by alliteration or other features suggesting a jingle. L17.
b. noun.
A jingling noise; a sound intermediate between clinking and ringing. L16.
A thing that jingles, esp. a small bell. E17.
a. The affected repetition of the same sound or similar sounds, as in alliteration, rhyme, or assonance; (usu. derog.) any arrangement of words achieving its effect by sound rather than by sense. M17.
b. A short tune, verse, slogan, etc., played or sung (as) in a radio or television commercial. M20.
Chiefly Hist. A two-wheeled one-horse cart with seats, used esp. in the south of Ireland and Australia; a governess cart. E19.
(The shell of) a bivalve mollusc of the family Anomidae, having an asymmetric shell with a hole or notch for the siphon; a saddle-oyster. Also jingle shell. Orig. US. L19.
Phrases & comb.: jingle-boy slang (a) a coin; (b) a man with plenty of money in his pockets. jingle shell: see sense B.5 above. jingling Johnny (a) slang a Turkish crescent or pavillon chinois (percussion instruments with jingling bells); (b) Austral. & NZ slang a person who shears sheep by hand; in pl., hand shears. jingling match a game in which one player keeps ringing a bell while the others, all blindfolded, try to catch him or her.
jingly adjective characterized by jingling, resembling a jingle E19.