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▪ I. jingling, vbl. n.|ˈdʒɪŋglɪŋ|
Also gingling.
[f. jingle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. jingle, q.v.
14..Chaucer's Nun's Pr. Prol. 28 (Harl. MS.) Gingling [6-text, clynkyng] of þe bellis Þat on ȝour bridil hong on euery syde. c1440Promp. Parv. 195/1 Gyngelynge of gay harneys.., resonancia. 1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 75 With theese Gods gingling [voce deorum], with sight moste geason apaled. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. E j, Jingling of fetters had no merie sound. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. iii. §1 The puddle-Poet did hope, that the jingling of his rhyme would drown the sound of his false quantity. 1731A. Hill Adv. Poets xxiii, Shame on your Jyngling, ye soft Sons of Rhyme! 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 105 The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.
b. attrib., as jingling match, a diversion in which all the players are blindfolded except one, who keeps ringing a bell in each hand, while the others try to catch him.
c1786Cowper Let. Wks. 1835 V. 355 All who are attached to the jingling art. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. iii. §31 Jingling match..a diversion common enough at country wakes and fairs. 1805Sporting Mag. XXV. 304 A smock-race and a jingling-match were to take place. 1888Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 5/4 We hear nowadays less and less of..gingling and whistling matches.
▪ II. jingling, ppl. a.|ˈdʒɪŋglɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That jingles: see the verb.
1557–8T. Phaer æneid vi. R j b, From thens wer howlings heard..and gyngling noyse of draggyng chaynes. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. 48 b, A hundred gingling belles do hang, to make his courage more. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 232. 1634 Heywood Witches Lanc. iv. i. Wks. 1874 IV. 218, I wanted but a paire of gingling spurs to make you mend your pace. 1789Burns On Capt. Grose's Peregrin. vi, Auld nick-nackets: Rust airn caps and jinglin jackets. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1858) 252 Whatsoever is not sung is properly no Poem, but a piece of Prose cramped into jingling lines,—to the great injury of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for most part!
2. jingling Johnny, (a) slang = Chinese pavilion; (b) Austral. and N.Z. slang, one who shears sheep by hand; pl. hand shears.
a.1904H. G. Farmer Mem. R. Artillery Band ii. 51 An instrument known as the ‘Jingling Johnnie’, and tambourines were employed. 1920G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 311 Every scorer of ballets could scatter pearls from the pavillon chinois (alias Jingling Johnny) over the plush and cotton velvet of his harmonies. 1970Times 24 Aug. 20/5 (Advt.), French Pavillon Chinois (jingling Johnny) for sale. Recently restored. {pstlg}100 o.n.o.
b.1934L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 20 Jan. 15/7 Jingling Johnnies, old time slang term for hand shearers. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 39 Jingling johnnies, hand shears. 1945[see dagger n.2 a]. 1965J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry i. 33 Jingling Johnny, originally a swagman or bagman but in many districts this was also another name for a hand-shearer.
Hence ˈjinglingly (ging-) adv.
1840Browning Sordello v. 953 Some shape..Approached, out of the dark, ginglingly near. |