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▪ I. jing, n.1 rare.|dʒɪŋ|
[Echoic; cf. ping, ting, etc.]
A sharp ring, a jingle.
a1653G. Daniel Idylls iv. 93 The cag'd Squirrell, with a Iing of Bells.
▪ II. jing, n.2 orig. Sc.
In the asseveration by jing! (rarely by jings!) = by jingo.
1785Burns Halloween ix, While Willie lap, and swoor by jing. 1809[see good a. 19]. 1850[A common asseveration apparently in all parts of Scotland (By jingo not in use).] 1881‘Mark Twain’ Let. 16 Dec. (1917) I. 412 By jings! the postman will be here in a minute. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy ii. iii. 184 Well, by jing, if it ain't Tom. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 39 By jings!, an exclamation, derived from ‘by jingo!’
▪ III. jing, v. rare.
[Cf. jing n.1]
intr. To ring.
1884R. Buchanan Eng. Huswife's Gossip Poems 95/1 Her tongue was like a bell upon a sheep—Her very motion seemed to make it jing. |