jinglen.
/ˈdʒɪŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/ 1.
a. A noise such as is made by small bells, a chain of loose links, or loose pieces of metal when struck; a sound intermediate between clinking and ringing.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > jingle or jangle
jingling14..
jingle1600
twangling1607
jinga1657
jingle-jangle1694
twangle1812
ringle1828
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell > small bell
clapping1377
tinglinga1398
tinklinga1398
jingling14..
tinging1495
ting1611
ting-tang1808
ting-a-ling?1850
tankling1864
jingle1874
pringa1930
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Dram. Pers. sig. Aiiiv Fastidius Briske... The Gingle of his spurre, and the Ierke of his Wand. View more context for this quotation
1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion ii. 18 We know when a certain Spark of this Town is at hand by the new fangled gingle of his Coach.
1791 E. Inchbald Simple Story I. vii. 75 The gentle gingle of a teaspoon.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. vi. 122 No other sound was heard, except the gingle of the dollars and Napoleons.
1833 H. Martineau Three Ages ii. 73 Mrs. Reade heard the jingle of the chain.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. ii. 30 The continual jingle of our sledge-bells.
b. Applied depreciatively to other sounds.
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1827 T. Carlyle tr. H. Doering in Edinb. Rev. June 182 The jingle of the household operations seemed not at all to disturb him.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 46 The gingle of the song-sparrow salutes us from the shrubs and fences.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 184 I hear nothing but the..scolding, and the jingle of the piano.
2.
a. Something that jingles; a jingling bell; anything adapted to produce a jingling sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > jingle or jangle > jingler or jangler
jingler1600
jingle1615
jingle-jangle1640
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > small bell
bellc1175
cocklebell1378
crier1467
tantony1567
jingle1615
campanel1653
ting-tang1681
tinkler1767
crotal1790
grelot1854
pellet bell1907
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 173 Who instead of musicall instruments, have sawcers of brasse (which they strike against one another) set about with gingles.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 203 If you Plant, where Sauages are, doe not onely entertaine them with Trifles, and Gingles; But vse them iustly.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1248 The tambourine,..and the Turkish jingle, used in the army.
b. Australian slang. Money. Cf. jingle-boy n. at Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands viii. 99 Ther Elder dug in 'n' brought up er 'andful iv jingle.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 39 Jingle, money.
3.
a. The affected repetition of the same sound or of a similar series of sounds, as in alliteration, rhyme, or assonance; any arrangement of words intended to have a pleasing or striking sound without regard to the sense; a catching array of words, whether in prose or verse. Chiefly contemptuous.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > jingling of rhyme
jargon1570
jingle1661
chimea1674
ting-tang1686
ding-dong1709
clinka1716
tinkle1776
tintinnabulum1782
tink1890
1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 171 In the perusal of these Parables,..you shall find no gingles in them.
1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim 157 Frivolous hearers, who are more pleased with little gingles, and tinkling of words than with the most perswasive arguments.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 261 As if that old Gingle were logically true.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 297. ¶16 He [sc. Milton]..often affects a kind of Jingle in his Words, as in the following Passages..‘And brought into the World a World of woe’.
1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 26/2 Several pages of his sermons consisting of a series of verbal quibbles and jingles.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 42 This gingle is certainly pleasing in itself.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. viii. xxvii. 534 Their so-called philosophy had become little better than a jingle of phrases.
b. A short verse or song in a radio or television commercial or in general advertising.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > by short verse or song
jingle1930
1930 A. Flexner Universities i. xxv. 165 Let the psychologists study advertising..in order to understand what takes place when a jingle like ‘not a cough in a carload’ persuades a nation to buy a new brand of cigarettes.
1949 Life 28 Mar. 36/1 She abhors the jingle's suggestion that she be taken home and squeezed.
1959 Punch 10 June 769/1 He says I can't possibly get on in the jingles business without going to Oxford.
1959 Punch 17 June 815/2 Channel 9 already gets into hot water when its ‘natural breaks’ happen to clip a speech in mid-sentence: its life would not be worth living if it saw fit..to substitute a jingle for the heavyweight's knock-out hook.
1968 Listener 26 Sept. 421/3 Certainly those hideous jingles could go: it made good sense for Radio London or Radio Caroline, as new, commercial stations, to tell us that they were wonderful, but the BBC could spare itself that reassurance.
1972 D. Ramsay Little Murder Music 76 Colby was working a jingle date.
1972 D. Ramsay Little Murder Music 76 The jingle, a singing commercial for a detergent, was being recorded.
4. A covered two-wheeled car used in Cornwall, the south of Ireland, and in Australia. Also attributive.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > covered > two-wheeled covered
volante1791
jingle1806
1806 J. Carr Stranger in Ireland v. 111 I mounted a jingle at the great jingle stand at the corner of Bagot Street.
1824 T. C. Croker Researches S. Ireland ii. 34 Jingles..have been established between the principal towns. These are carriages on easy springs,..to contain six or eight persons.
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 25 772/2 Ultimately the gingle was almost abandoned for the jaunting-car.
1842 W. M. Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Confessions in Fraser's Mag. June 710/1 I got it..from..a jingle-driver.
1862 C. Aspinall Three Years Melbourne 122 Gentlemen who have lived in India will persist in calling this vehicle a jingle;..it is a kind of dos-a-dos conveyance, holding three in front, and three behind, it has a water~proof top to it..and oilskin curtains to draw all round.
1874 A. I. Thackeray Let. 12 July (1924) viii. 158 You come to a most detestable little object called Bude..and then you..come home in a little thing called a Jingle.
1887 Cassell's Picturesque Australasia I. 64 The jingle has been ousted by the one-horse waggonette.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Aug. 2/3 Queenstown is full... The jingle men, as they are called here..are making their fortunes.
1906 Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 4/4 When I asked one of the drivers how to reach the Cornish border, he offered to convey me..in a jingle-cart.
1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder ii. 34 He saw the black-coated train toiling up Pendhu hill,..some leading the ponies in the jingles.
1942 A. L. Rowse Cornish Childhood vii. 189 I was sent to put the donkey into the shay or jingle.
5. An American name for the shell of the saddle-oyster, Anomia. Also attributive.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [adjective] > of or relating to oyster > of shell of saddle-oyster
jingle1887
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > anomia ephippium > shell of
saddle-shell1863
jingle1887
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 543 A more fragile shell, such as a scallop, mussel, or jingle (Anomia) is certainly better.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Aug. 3/3 A large collection of scallop and jingle shells—gold and silver shells the little people call them.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (See also senses 4, 5) (see quots.).
jingle-bell n.
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1887 Bicycling News 21 May 99/1 My light was burning brilliantly and my jingle bell going at the time.
1894 Outing 24 71/1 The captain of the launch pulls the ‘jingle bell’ for full speed ahead.
jingle box n.
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Jingle-boxes, Leathern Jacks tipt and hung with Silver Bells formerly in use among Fuddle Caps.
jingle-brains n.
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Jingle-brains, a Maggot-pated Fellow.
C2.
jingle-boy n. slang a coin, spec. a sovereign; also, a man who has plenty of money in his pockets.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > person who has large amount of money
jingle-boya1640
four-millioneer1667
plum1709
millionary1786
millionaire1795
money bag1820
millionista1843
trimillionaire1848
multimillionaire1858
billionaire1861
millioner1865
trillionaire1873
quadrillionairea1876
thousandaire1896
milliardaire1897
multibillionaire1906
zillionaire1926
multi1950
mega-millionaire1968
squillionaire1979
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of twenty shillings
goldfinch1602
Harry sovereign1615
piece1631
jingle-boya1640
yellow boy1654
quid1661
marigold1663
broad-piece1678
pound piecea1715
gold penny1736
sovereign1817
dragon1827
sov1829
chip?1836
couter1846
thick 'un1848
monarch1851
James1858
skiv1858
Victoria1870
goblin1887
red one1890
Jimmy1899
quidlet1902
Jimmy O'Goblin1931
pound coin1931
a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. K1 Come old fellow bring thy white Bears to the stake, and thy yellow gingle boys to the Bull-ring.
a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 17 in Five New Playes (1659) There is a Gallant now below, a Gingle boy indeed, that has his pockets full of crowns that chide for vent.
1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 24/1 Canary,..a sovereign. English Synonyms..yellow hammer; shiner; gingleboy; monarch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
jinglev.
/ˈdʒɪŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/ 1.
a. intransitive. To give forth a mingling of ringing sounds, as by the striking together of coins, keys, or other small metallic objects; it expresses a more prolonged and continuous sound than clink, and a more complicated one than tinkle.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > jingle or jangle
ringlea1398
jinglec1405
ging1570
jingle1631
chinkle1870
jingle-jangle1899
twingle-twangle1900
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 170 Whanne he rood men myghte his brydel heere Gyngle in a whistlynge wynd als cleere And eek as loude as dooth the Chapel belle.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 566/1 I gyngyll, I make a noyse, as thinges of metall do whan they be shaked togyther.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 213 To haue a great sort of siluer sounded belles, gynglyng aboute their horse neckes.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Miiv Their bels iyngling.
1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. D2 To heare my mony gingle in other mens pockets.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xix. sig. D10v Hee..takes great delight in his walke to heare his Spurs gingle.
a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 110 He heard..her chains gingle as she came.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxx. 40 The glasses jingled, and the palates tingled.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair I. xxi. 173 The bells..gingled.
1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night (1880) ix. 24 The harness jingles, as it passes by.
b. transferred and figurative. (Cf. ring v.1)
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1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 76 How..their roaring oaths gingle in their mouthes.
1867 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 379 There is not one word in the whole quotation but jingles false.
c. To proceed or move with a jingling sound.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with jingling noise
jingle1733
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > jingle or jangle > proceed with
jingle1733
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 4 From the crack'd bagg the dropping Guinea spoke..gingling down the back-stairs.
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 204 To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder.
1894 A. I. Ritchie Chapters from Mem. iii. 36 A yellow carriage jingled by.
d. quasi-transitive with it.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > jingle or jangle
ringlea1398
jinglec1405
ging1570
jingle1631
chinkle1870
jingle-jangle1899
twingle-twangle1900
1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 19 in Whimzies Here the Guga-girles gingle it with his neat nifles.
2. transitive. To cause (something) to emit a mingling of ringing sounds.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > jingle or jangle
jingle1508
jamble1715
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Bot gif it war to gyngill Iudas bellis.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Cij The kitchin clarke..Jengling his counters.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 172 Fannes of brasse, hung about with rings, which they gingle in stops according to their marchings.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 194 Another who gingles several bells fixed to his cap.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xi. 93 Jingling his keys in one pocket.
3. intransitive.
a. Of prose or verse: To sound with alliteration, rhymes, or other repetitions.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)] > jingle
tinkle1625
tink1655
chimea1667
jingle1670
clinka1745
sing-song1828
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 67 Then comes the joy of joys, when the parts jingle, or begin with the same letter; and especially if in Latin.
1780 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 115 In this chamber on the wall is inscribed a gingling verse,..Ad mala patrata, sunt atra theatra parata.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 535 Compositions of all sorts, from sermons with sixteen heads down to jingling street ballads.
b. To play with words for the sake of sound; (depreciatively) to rhyme.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > play with words
jingle1642
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)] > use rhyme
rhyme1584
jingle1642
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xvi. 113 Rich in Latine, though he doth not gingle with it in every company.
1708 S. Ockley Conquest of Syria Pref. p. xvi At other times jingling upon Words.
1714 A. Pope Corr. 13 July (1956) I. 236 I should be sorry and ashamed to go on gingling to the last step.
1786 R. Burns Poems 198 Whene'er my Muse does on me glance, I jingle at her.
c. transitive. To rhyme. (depreciative.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > rhyme with [verb (transitive)] > cause to rhyme > cause to jingle
clink1724
jingle1894
1894 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 58 252/1 Carlyle..I have more than once seen spoken of as having first jingled end with mend.
Derivatives
ˈjingle-ˈjingle n. reduplication of the verb-stem, used adverbially = with continued jingling.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [adverb] > jingling or jangling
jingle-jingle1665
tinklingly1837
jinglingly1840
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 36 Gingle, gingle went her bridle.
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