JINGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jingle mean? 

• JINGLE (noun)
  The noun JINGLE has 2 senses:

1. a metallic sound

2. a comic verse of irregular measure

  Familiarity information: JINGLE used as a noun is rare.

• JINGLE (verb)
  The verb JINGLE has 1 sense:

1. make a sound typical of metallic objects

  Familiarity information: JINGLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JINGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metallic sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

jangle; jingle

Context example:

the jangle of spurs

Hypernyms ("jingle" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

jingle (make a sound typical of metallic objects)

jingly (having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A comic verse of irregular measure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

doggerel; doggerel verse; jingle

Context example:

he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind

Hypernyms ("jingle" is a kind of...):

rhyme; verse (a piece of poetry)

• JINGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jingle    ... he / she / it jingles   
Past simple: jingled   
Past participle: jingled   
-ing form: jingling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a sound typical of metallic objects

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

jangle; jingle; jingle-jangle

Context example:

The keys were jingling in his pocket

Hypernyms (to "jingle" is one way to...):

make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The coins jingle

Derivation:

jingle (a metallic sound)

 Context examples 

She took possession of the keys soon after this, and went jingling about the house with the whole bunch in a little basket, tied to her slender waist.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then it is not I, and went to another door; but when the people heard the jingling of the bells they would not open it, and she could get in nowhere.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

All day they swung up and down the main street in long teams, and in the night their jingling bells still went by.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When he had squared every debt, redeemed every pledge, he would still have jingling in his pockets a princely $43.90.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was a jingle of bells.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Let go her head!” cried he to the ostler, and with a snap, a crack, and a jingle, away we went upon our journey.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, with jingle of arms and clatter of hoofs, they rode across the Bridge of Avon, while the burghers shouted lustily for the flag of the five roses and its gallant guard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She loved music so dearly, tried so hard to learn, and practiced away so patiently at the jingling old instrument, that it did seem as if someone (not to hint Aunt March) ought to help her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in oilcloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted; and afterwards, in listening to the sound of the piano or the harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were handed, to the broken hum of conversation as the drawing-room door opened and closed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)