jingle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: jingle	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for jingle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jingle n a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs" Synonym(s): jingle, jangle a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" Synonym(s): doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle v make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" Synonym(s): jingle, jingle-jangle, jangle
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. [bd]Jingling street ballads.[b8] --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.[bd] The least jingle of verse.[b8] --Guardian. {Jingle shell}. See {Gold shell} (b), under {Gold}.