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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. -- Pope. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. -- Bacon. 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: jingle n : a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: {doggerel}, {doggerel verse}] v : as of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" [syn: {jinglejangle}, {jangle}]
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