Jin"gle (?), v. i. [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle.]
1.
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
[Written also
gingle.]
2.
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
"
Jingling street ballads."
Macaulay.
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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.
The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.
Pope.
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Jin"gle, n.
1.
A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
2.
That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles,but use them justly.
Bacon.
3.
A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
" The least
jingle of verse."
Guardian.
Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.
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