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jingler|ˈdʒɪŋglə(r)|
[f. jingle v. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which jingles; a rimer.
1599B. Jonson Ev. man out of Hum. ii. v, I had spurres of mine own before: but they were not ginglers. 1672Eachard Hobbs's State Nat. 30 Thou shalt see that thou art ten times more an Owl, than I am a cheat and jingler. 1803T. G. Fessenden Terrible Tractoration ii. (ed. 2) 89 note, The wolf always makes it his first object to silence this jingler [the bell wether]. 1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xi. 119 A fringe of small bells, or jinglers, of lead and tin.
†2. slang. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Jinglers, Horse-Coursers frequenting Country Fairs.
3. A local name for the Golden-eyed Duck.
1829P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 360 The golden-eye is here provincially called gingler or ginging-curre, from the noise of its wings. 1888G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds xxiii. 79 At Pleasantville..Jingler; at Baltimore and on the Patapsco River, Whiffler. |