What does "jingle" mean?
Jingle: To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
- 3.A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
- 4.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.
- 5.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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