Jingle /(?)/

Jin·gle

Jingle

v. i.
  1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
  2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.

Jingle

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Jingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Jingling

  1. 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.

Jingle

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.
  3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit;

Phrases & Compounds

Jingle shell
See Gold shell (b), under Gold.