Hypertext Webster Gateway: "jingle"
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) 1.7 (wn)
jingle
n 1: a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of
spurs" [syn: {jangle}]
2: 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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