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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
.
See
Gold shell
(b)
, under
Gold
.

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)

  1. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
  2. (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.”
  3. A carriage drawn by horses.
  4. (slang) A quick, brief phone call.
    Give me a jingle when you find out something.
  5. Alternative form of jingle shell

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Verb

jingle (third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled)

  1. To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    The beads jingled as she walked.
  2. To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    She jingled the beads as she walked.
  3. (dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
    • Macaulay
      Jingling street ballads.

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French

Etymology

From English jingle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒiŋɡœl/

Noun

jingle m (plural jingles)

  1. jingle (tune)
    C'est l'heure d'envoyer le jingle.