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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jingle \jin"gle\, v. i. oe. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to e.
   chink; cf. also e. jangle.
   1913 webster
   1. to sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or
      tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. written also
      gingle.
      1913 webster

   2. to rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "jingling street
      ballads." --macaulay.
      1913 webster
see also:
gingle 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   1913 webster

         the bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. --pope.
   1913 webster
see also:
jingled jingling 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jingle \jin"gle\, n.
   1. a rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little
      bells or pieces of metal.
      1913 webster

   2. that which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
      1913 webster

            if you plant where savages are, do not only
            entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use
            them justly.                          --bacon.
      1913 webster

   3. a correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the
      verse has little merit; hence, a rhyming verse of no
      poetical merit. " the least jingle of verse." --guardian.

   note: the verses used in commercial advertisements are often
         called jingles, especially when sung.
         1913 webster

   jingle shell. see gold shell
      b, under gold.
          1913 webster
see also:
jingle shell gold shell gold 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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 : make a sound typical of metallic objects; "the keys were
         jingling in his pocket" syn: jingle-jangle, jangle
see also:
jangle doggerel doggerel verse jingle-jangle 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
220 moby thesaurus words for "jingle":
   alexandrine, english sonnet, horatian ode, italian sonnet,
   petrarchan sonnet, pindaric ode, sapphic ode, shakespearean sonnet,
   accent, accentuation, alba, alliterate, alliteration, amphibrach,
   amphimacer, anacreontic, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis,
   assonance, assonate, bacchius, balada, ballad, ballade, beat,
   bucolic, cadence, caesura, canso, cap verses, catalexis,
   change ringing, chanson, chime, chiming, chink, chinking,
   chloriamb, chloriambus, clack, clang, clanging, clangor, clank,
   clanking, clatter, clerihew, clink, clinking, colon, counterpoint,
   cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, ding,
   ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dipody, dirge, dithyramb,
   ditty, dochmiac, doggerel, dong, donging, drone, eclogue, elegiac,
   elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, elegy, emphasis, epic,
   epigram, epithalamium, epitrite, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos,
   feminine caesura, foot, georgic, ghazel, gong, haiku, harping,
   heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody,
   humdrum, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, idyll, ionic,
   jangle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling,
   lilt, limerick, lyric, madrigal, masculine caesura, measure,
   melody, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group,
   metrical unit, metron, molossus, monody, monotone, monotony, mora,
   movement, narrative poem, near rhyme, numbers, nursery rhyme, ode,
   paeon, palinode, paronomasia, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
   pastourelle, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pentameter, pentapody,
   period, pitter-patter, poem, proceleusmatic, prothalamium, pun,
   pyrrhic, quantity, rattle, repeated sounds, repetitiousness,
   repetitiveness, rhyme, rhythm, ring, ring changes, ringing,
   rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, scan, sestina,
   singsong, slant rhyme, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, sound,
   sound a knell, spondee, sprung rhythm, stale repetition, stress,
   swing, syzygy, tanka, tedium, tenso, tenzone, tetrameter,
   tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, threnody, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle,
   tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll,
   tolling, tribrach, trimeter, triolet, tripody, triseme, trochee,
   trot, troubadour poem, tune, unnecessary repetition, verse,
   verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay





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